Image forming apparatus
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorHidetaka Okamoto
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Abstract
There is provided an image forming apparatus including separating members in a conveyance direction of sheets conveyed from a paper tray, the separating members being configured to separate the sheets one by one. The separating members include an upward regulating member configured to regulate a central part of a sheet in a width direction in a manner that the central part of the sheet points upward, and downward regulating members on both sides of the upward regulating member, the downward regulating members each being configured to regulate both ends of the sheet in the width direction in a manner that both ends of the sheet point downward. A position of an upper end of the upward regulating member is higher than a position of a lower end of each downward regulating member.
Claims6
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- separating members in a conveyance direction of sheets conveyed from a paper tray, the separating members being configured to separate the sheets one by one,
- wherein the separating members include
- an upward regulating member configured to regulate a central part of a sheet in a width direction in a manner that the central part of the sheet points upward, and
- downward regulating members on both sides of the upward regulating member, the downward regulating members each being configured to regulate both ends of the sheet in the width direction in a manner that both ends of the sheet point downward,
- wherein a position of an upper end of the upward regulating member is higher than a position of a lower end of each downward regulating member, and
- wherein the upper end of the upward regulating member is positioned in a more upstream conveyance direction of the sheet than a tip of each downward regulating member is.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.