IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND SHEET STORAGE DEVICE

摘要

An image forming apparatus includes a body having an opening, an image forming unit, storage units that can store a sheet, and a moving unit provided in each storage unit. The moving unit moves the stored sheet and then stops it in an exposed state where the sheet is partly exposed, from the opening, to a body outside. Where a first sheet and a second sheet, stored in a storage unit different from where the first sheet is stored, contact and then are exposed to the outside, when a first sheet moving distance to the exposed state and a second sheet moving distance to the exposed state are different, the moving unit changes a first sheet movement start timing relative to that of the second sheet or changes a first sheet moving speed relative to that of the second sheet, based on moving distances of the first and second sheets.

主权项

1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
an apparatus body in which an opening portion is formed; an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet; a plurality of sheet storage units, wherein each sheet storage unit is configured to store, inside the apparatus body, the sheet with the image formed thereon by the image forming unit; and a sheet moving unit provided in each of the plurality of sheet storage units, and configured to move the sheet stored therein and then stop the sheet in an exposed state where the sheet is partly exposed, from the opening portion, to an outside of the apparatus body, wherein, in a case where a first sheet, stored in a first sheet storage unit among the plurality of sheet storage units, and a second sheet, stored in a second sheet storage unit different from the first sheet storage unit among the plurality of sheet storage units, are brought into contact with each other and then exposed from the opening portion to the outside of the apparatus body in the exposed state, when a moving distance of the first sheet to bring the first sheet into the exposed state and a moving distance of the second sheet to bring the second sheet into the exposed state are different from each other, the sheet moving unit changes a movement start timing of the first sheet relative to a movement start timing of the second sheet or changes a moving speed of the first sheet relative to a moving speed of the second sheet, based on the moving distance of the first sheet and the moving distance of the second sheet.