US 9,169,101 B2Granted

Image forming apparatus

AssigneeKYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.

InventorsTsuyoshi Koyanagi, Shinsaku Yoneda

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Abstract

An image forming apparatus includes a housing, a first discharge opening and a second discharge opening, a sheet discharge portion, a restricting member and a sheet discharge tray. The sheet discharge portion is connected at a position below the first discharge opening, and the sheet discharged through the first discharge opening is to be placed thereon. The restricting member stands up on a downstream side of the sheet discharge portion in a discharging direction of the sheet and can come into contact with a downstream end edge of the sheet discharged to the sheet discharge portion in the discharging direction. The sheet discharge tray includes a first fixing portion and a second fixing portion to be fixed to an upper end part of the restricting member and is attachable above the sheet discharge portion, and a sheet discharged through the second discharge opening is to be placed thereon.

Claims8

Dependent claims

An image forming apparatus, comprising:

a housing with a standing wall;
an image forming unit which is arranged in the housing and forms an image on a sheet;
a first discharge opening and a second discharge opening above the first discharge opening, which are arranged on the standing wall while being vertically spaced apart and through which the sheet having the image formed thereon is selectively discharged from the interior of the housing;
a sheet discharge portion which is connected to the standing wall at a position below the first discharge opening and on which the sheet discharged through the first discharge opening is to be placed;
a restricting member which stands up on a downstream side of the sheet discharge portion in a discharging direction of the sheet and which comes into contact with a downstream end edge of the sheet discharged to the sheet discharge portion in the discharging direction;
a sheet discharge tray which includes a first fixing portion to be fixed to the standing wall and a second fixing portion to be fixed to an upper end part of the restricting member and is attachable above the sheet discharge portion and on which a sheet discharged through the second discharge opening is to be placed;
an air inlet arranged at a rear end side of the standing wall in an attaching direction of the sheet discharge tray to the housing;
an air outlet formed on the standing wall and extending toward a leading end side in the attaching direction below a rear end side of the sheet discharge tray in the attaching direction;
and
an airflow generator arranged in the standing wall and discharging from the air outlet air that has been sucked through the air inlet, wherein
the sheet discharge portion includes a recess at a downstream side in the discharging direction;
and
a state of the restricting member is changed between a first position where the restricting member stands up from the sheet discharge portion and fixes the sheet discharge tray and a second position where the restricting member is accommodated in the recess.

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An image forming apparatus, is comprising:

a housing with a standing wall;
an image forming unit arranged in the housing and forming an image on a sheet;
a first discharge opening and a second discharge opening above the first discharge opening, the first and second discharge openings being arranged on the standing wall while being vertically spaced apart and through which the sheet having the image formed thereon is selectively discharged from the interior of the housing, a sheet discharge portion that is connected to the standing wall at a position below the first discharge opening and on which the sheet discharged through the first discharge opening is to be placed,
a restricting member that stands up on a downstream side of the sheet discharge portion in a discharging direction of the sheet and that comes into contact with a downstream end edge of the sheet discharged to the sheet discharge portion in the discharging direction;
a sheet discharge tray that includes a first fixing portion to be fixed to the standing wall and a second fixing portion to be fixed to an upper end part of the restricting member and is attachable above the sheet discharge portion and on which a sheet discharged through the second discharge opening is to be placed,
an air inlet arranged at a rear end side of the standing wall in an attaching direction of the sheet discharge tray to the housing;
an air outlet formed on the standing wall to extend toward a leading end side in the attaching direction below a rear end side of the sheet discharge tray in the attaching direction;
and
an airflow generator arranged in the standing wall and discharging from the air outlet air that has been sucked through the air inlet.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/328,239Filed 10 Jul 2014 · division
Priority: JP 2012-0861645 Apr 2012
Published: US 2014/0319766 A130 Oct 2014
Granted: 27 Oct 2015
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification12 codes

B65H 31/24
Pile receivers: multiple or compartmented, e.d. for alternate, programmed, or selective filling
B65H 29/60
Article switches or diverters: diverting the stream into alternative paths
B65H 31/02
Pile receivers: with stationary end support against which pile accumulates
B65H 31/22
Pile receivers: removable or interchangeable

Family

Application13/855,418Parent of this division · filed 2 Apr 2013
US 2014/0319766 A1Pre-grant publication · published 30 Oct 2014
US 8,820,742 B2Parent of this division
US 2013/0264771 A1Published application
US 9,169,101 B2This patent

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