Image forming apparatus
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMasamitsu UKAI
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a placement tray on which a recording medium is placed and which is attachably and detachably assembled into a housing. The placement tray includes a holding portion having an upwardly concave configuration at one end of the placement tray in an attaching and detaching direction of the placement tray. The holding portion includes at least one air vent for taking air into the housing in a vicinity of at least one of both end portions of the holding portion in a width direction perpendicular to the attaching and detaching direction.
Claims25
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a housing comprising a front wall having an opening;
- an image forming unit disposed in the housing for forming an image on a recording medium;
- a tray for accommodating the recording medium, the tray being detachably attachable to the housing through the opening in the front wall of the housing;
- a feeder for feeding the recording medium from the tray to the image forming unit along a feeding path, the feeder including a pick up unit for picking up the recording medium from the tray,
- wherein the tray further comprises:
- a holding portion disposed at the opening of the front wall when the tray is attached to the housing;
- wherein the holding portion comprises:
- wall portions defining a hollow region of the tray, the wall portions having at least one air vent that allows the hollow portion to communicate with an interior portion of the housing,
- wherein the feeding path is disposed between the pick up unit and the at least one air vent.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a housing comprising a front wall having an opening;
- an image forming unit disposed in the housing for forming an image on a recording medium, the image forming unit including a developer unit and an image bearing member;
- a scanning unit disposed in the housing for irradiating a light onto the image bearing member;
- a fixing unit disposed in the housing for fixing the image on the recording medium;
- a tray for accommodating the recording medium, the tray being detachably attachable to the housing through the opening in the front wall of the housing;
- wherein the tray further includes:
- a holding portion disposed at the opening of the front wall when the tray is attached to the housing,
- wherein the holding portion includes:
- wall portions defining a hollow region of the tray, the wall portions having at least one air vent that allows the hollow portion to communicate with an interior portion of the housing, and
- wherein the housing further includes a passage that allows air to pass from the at least one vent to the image forming unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.