Image forming apparatus, sheet guide apparatus and sheet guide method
AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYoshiaki SUGIZAKI
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit to form an image on a sheet, a sheet discharge part to discharge the sheet on which the image is formed, and a relay unit that is attached to the sheet discharge part, includes a sheet conveyance path to convey the discharged sheet to a finisher, and includes, at a side of a discharge port of the sheet conveyance path, a rotation end which can rotate up and down to coincide with a height position of the finisher while a shaft provided at a side of a carry-in port of the sheet conveyance path is made a fulcrum.
Claims20
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming unit to form an image on a sheet;
- a sheet discharge part to discharge the sheet on which the image is formed;
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- a relay unit that is attached to the sheet discharge part, includes a sheet conveyance path to convey the discharged sheet to a finisher, and includes, at a side of a discharge port of the sheet conveyance path, a rotation end which can rotate up and down to coincide with a height position of the finisher while a shaft provided at a side of a carry-in port of the sheet conveyance path is made a fulcrum.
A sheet guide apparatus comprising:
- a unit main body that is attached to a sheet discharge part of an image forming apparatus and includes a carry-in port to carry in a sheet discharged from the image forming apparatus;
- a sheet conveyance path that is provided in the unit main body and conveys the carried-in sheet to a finisher;
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- a rotation mechanism that includes a shaft provided at a side of the carry-in port and a support part to support the shaft, and rotates a rotation end of the unit main body at a side of a discharge port of the sheet conveyance path up and down in conformity with a height position of the finisher, while the shaft is made a fulcrum.
A sheet guide method comprising:
- attaching, to a sheet discharge part of an image forming apparatus, a unit main body including a carry-in port to carry in a sheet discharged from the image forming apparatus;
- conveying the sheet carried in the carry-in port to a finisher through a sheet conveyance path that is formed in the unit main body;
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- rotating a rotation end of the unit main body at a side of a discharge port of the sheet conveyance path up and down in conformity with a height position of the finisher, while a shaft provided at a side of the carry-in port is made a fulcrum.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.