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US 7,607,846 B2Granted
Ejection tray, sheet supply and ejection device, image forming apparatus, and information display device
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsKunihito Sawai, Yutaka Hasegawa
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Abstract
An ejection tray includes a container that contains a plurality of stacked recording sheets printed by a printing unit of an image forming apparatus, a movable cover mounted on the container, and a sorting member that sorts out a desired recording sheet from the recording sheets stacked in the container. The desired recording sheet sorted out in the container is allowed to be taken out when the cover is opened.
Claims2
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a printing unit for performing printing on a recording sheet;
- a supply tray from which the recording sheet is supplied;
- and
- an ejection tray including a container that contains the recording sheet after printing, and a movable cover mounted on the container,
- wherein the recording sheet supplied from the supply tray is ejected into the container after being subjected to printing by the printing unit, and
- wherein the ejection tray is separably disposed on the supply tray to form a stack, addition of another recording sheet into the supply tray is allowed when the supply tray and the ejection tray are separated, and the recording sheet contained in the container is allowed to be taken out when the cover is opened, wherein the cover has a display that displays an information image corresponding to information printed on the recording sheet by the printing unit.
3 more elements
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a printing unit for performing printing on a recording sheet;
- a supply tray from which the recording sheet is supplied;
- and
- an ejection tray including a container that contains the recording sheet after printing, and a movable cover mounted on the container,
- wherein the recording sheet supplied from the supply tray is ejected into the container after being subjected to printing by the printing unit, and
- wherein the ejection tray is separably disposed on the supply tray to form a stack, addition of another recording sheet into the supply tray is allowed when the supply tray and the ejection tray are separated, and the recording sheet contained in the container is allowed to be taken out when the cover is opened, wherein the recording sheet includes a plurality of recording sheets, the ejection tray has a sorting member for sorting the recording sheets stacked in the container, the cover has a display that displays information images corresponding to information printed on the recording sheets by the printing unit, and has a touch panel function, and the recording sheets are sorted in the container according to section from the information images displayed on the display.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.