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US 6,145,832 AGranted
Image forming apparatus
AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
InventorsYasuhide Saito, Hidekazu Amamoto
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Abstract
In an image forming apparatus, at least a part of a transporting passage for guiding a recording sheet of paper to an image forming unit is opened from the front side of an apparatus body. According to the image forming apparatus, a paper jam can be easily removed and a space necessary for maintenance/inspection such as removal of the paper jam can be minimized.
Claims18
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an apparatus body;
- an image forming unit, provided on said apparatus body, for forming an image on a recording sheet of paper transported;
- a tray sheet feeding unit, provided on an upstream side of said image forming unit in a direction of transporting the recording sheet of paper, for accommodating stacked recording sheets of paper, said tray sheet feeding unit being installed removably from a front side of said apparatus body;
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- a transporting passage for guiding the recording sheet of paper fed from a direction of mounting said tray sheet feeding unit to said image unit,
- wherein at least a part of a chute surface constituting said transporting passage is movable from an attaching/detaching side of said tray sheet feeding unit so that at least a part of said transporting passage is opened from the front side of said apparatus body.
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An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an apparatus body;
- an image forming unit, provided on said apparatus body, for forming an image on a recording sheet of paper transported;
- a recording sheet accommodating unit, provided on an upstream side of said image forming unit, for placing stacked recording sheets of paper through a prescribed space in the said apparatus body from outside said apparatus body;
- a sheet feeding unit, provided on a further upstream side of said recording sheet accommodating unit in a direction of transporting the recording sheets, for accommodating stacked recording sheets of paper, said sheet feeding unit being provided detachably from said apparatus body;
- a transporting passage for guiding the recording sheet of paper fed from said sheet feeding unit to said image forming unit;
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- a part of said transporting passage formed in said recording sheet accommodating unit,
- wherein said recording sheet accommodating unit is movable so that at least a part of said transporting passage is opened though a prescribed space in said apparatus body apparatus body.
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A unit which is installed removably from an apparatus body, said unit comprising:
- a recording sheet accommodating section on which stacked recording sheets of paper are placed;
- a driven section provided in the vicinity of said recording sheet accommodating section;
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- driving force transmitting means for transmitting a driving force from said apparatus body to said driven section,
- wherein said unit is installed in a manner that at least front end portions of the recording sheets placed on said recording sheet accommodating section in a sheet feeding direction are positioned within said apparatus body
- wherein said unit further compresses electrically connecting means and wherein said unit is installed to said apparatus body so that said unit and said apparatus body are electrically connected to each other by said electrically connecting means.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.