发明名称 Image forming apparatus
摘要 An image forming apparatus includes: a housing accommodating an image forming unit and includes a side wall and an opening to feed the sheet from an outside to the image forming unit; a feeding tray moving between a holding position and an accommodation position; a guide provided at the feeding tray, the guide being configured to abut against the sheet which is held on the feeding tray from a rear end side of the sheet in a feeding direction along with the sheet is fed to the image forming unit and define a holding position of the sheet when the feeding tray is arranged at the holding position and the sheet is placed on the feeding tray; and a recess part formed on the sidewall of the housing and configured to accommodate the guide therein when the feeding tray is arranged at the accommodation position.
申请公布号 US8867110(B2) 申请公布日期 2014.10.21
申请号 US201313754195 申请日期 2013.01.30
申请人 Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha 发明人 Chen Jian
分类号 H04N1/04;H04N1/00;B41J13/10;B65H1/04 主分类号 H04N1/04
代理机构 Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. 代理人 Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.
主权项 1. An image forming apparatus comprising: an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet; a housing configured to accommodate the image forming unit therein and including a sidewall which forms at least a part of a first side surface of the housing, and an opening which is arranged at a lower part of the sidewall so as to feed the sheet from an outside to the image forming unit, the sidewall and the opening being formed on the first side surface; a feeding tray swingably supported by the housing and configured to move between a holding position at which the sheet which is fed to the image forming unit through the opening is held and an accommodation position at which the feeding tray closes the opening; a guide provided at the feeding tray, the guide being configured to abut against the sheet which is held on the feeding tray from a rear end side of the sheet in a feeding direction, along which the sheet is fed to the image forming unit, and to define a holding position of the sheet when the feeding tray is arranged at the holding position and the sheet is placed on the feeding tray; and a recess part formed on the sidewall of the housing and configured to accommodate the guide therein when the feeding tray is arranged at the accommodation position, wherein a center of gravity of the image forming unit is lopsided towards a side deviating from the first side surface in the housing, and wherein an upper inner wall of the recess part is inclined upwardly towards the first side surface.
地址 Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken JP