Slide rail and image forming apparatus with the same

An image forming apparatus comprising:

• a main body;
• an image forming unit configured to be slidable out of the main body;
• a slide rail for mounting the image forming unit in the main body in a sliding manner,
• the slide rail comprises:
• an outer rail and an inner rail, the inner rail being placed in the outer rail to be slidable in a longitudinal direction of the slide rail,
• the inner rail comprises:
• a top face portion located in a center of the inner rail in a width direction of the inner rail, the top face portion being continuous in the longitudinal direction;
• main-portion side walls provided adjacently on both sides of the top face portion in a width direction in the width direction, excepting one end portion in the longitudinal direction, each main-portion side wall being bent toward the outer rail;
• outer deck portions each extending outward in the width direction to be continuous to an edge of each main-portion side wall opposite the top face portion;
• and
• end-portion side walls provided adjacently on both sides of top face portion in the one end portion in the width direction, each end-portion side wall being bent toward the outer rail,
• a size in a height direction of each end-portion side wall is larger than a size in a height direction of each main-portion side wall,
• the end-portion side walls are directly continuous to the main-portion side walls respectively, and
• the outer rail comprises:
• a bottom wall located in a center of the outer rail in a width direction of the outer rail, the bottom wall being continuous in the longitudinal direction;
• and
• storage portions provided adjacently on both sides of the bottom wall in the width direction, and each storage portion being bent toward the inner rail to cover the outer deck portions of the inner rail, and
• one of the inner rail and the outer rail is fixed to the main body and the other is fixed to the image forming unit.