Image forming apparatus
AssigneeKonica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
InventorsShigeru SAWANO, Masashi Kawai, Naoki Nonoyama
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus that is orientatable in either a first position or a second position, the second position being different from the first position in inclination with respect to a horizontal plane, comprising: a platform configured to be stacked with a plurality of recording sheets used for image formation; a pickup roller in contact with the recording sheets and configured to pick up the recording sheets one at a time; a pressing member applying pressure to the platform against the pick-up roller; and a pressure changer causing the pressing member to change an amount of the pressure according to whether the image forming apparatus is in the first position or in the second position.
Claims7
An image forming apparatus that is orientatable in either a first position or a second position, the second position being different from the first position in inclination with respect to a horizontal plane, comprising:
- a platform configured to be stacked with a plurality of recording sheets used for image formation;
- a pickup roller in contact with the recording sheets and configured to pick up the recording sheets one at a time;
- a pressing member applying pressure to the platform against the pick-up roller;
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- a pressure changer causing the pressing member to change an amount of the pressure according to whether the image forming apparatus is in the first position or in the second position.
An image forming apparatus orientatable in either a first position or a second position, the second position being different from the first position in inclination with respect to a horizontal plane, comprising:
- a platform configured to be stacked with a plurality of recording sheets used for image formation;
- a pickup roller in contact with the recording sheets and configured to pick up the recording sheets one at a time;
- a pressing member applying pressure to the platform against the pick-up roller;
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- a pressure changer causing the pressing member to change an amount of the pressure according to a user's operation associated with whether the image forming apparatus is in the first position or in the second position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.