Document feeder and image forming apparatus
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsSHOHICHI FUKUTOME, KENJI KURODA, HIRONORI OGASAWARA, HISASHI YAMANAKA, TOSHIKI FUKUNISHI
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Abstract
A document feeder includes a document placing tray on which a document is placed; a document discharging tray on which a document discharged from a document discharging port in a discharging direction is stacked; and a light source that radiates light to the document discharging tray. The document discharging tray is disposed below the document placing tray. The document discharging tray has a protruding portion protruding upward from the surrounding area. The light source is disposed within a region having a width that is the same as a document having a maximum size in the width direction.
Claims8
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a transporter transporting a sheet to discharge the sheet from a sheet discharging port;
- a discharging tray on which the sheet discharged from the sheet discharging port in a discharging direction is stacked;
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- a light source disposed above the discharging tray and radiating light to the discharging tray, wherein
- the discharging tray includes a protruding portion protruding farther upward than a surrounding area,
- the protruding portion overlaps the light source disposed above the discharging tray in a width direction orthogonal to the discharging direction, and
- the light source is disposed in the width direction in a region from a center portion of a sheet having a maximum size to be discharged to an edge of the sheet having the maximum size to be discharged, the edge on a front side of the image forming apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.