Image forming apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10520875-B2
Application number	US-201715496771-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 25, 2017
Priority date	Apr 26, 2016
Publication date	Dec 31, 2019
Grant date	Dec 31, 2019

Abstract

An image forming apparatus includes a printer portion; an image reading portion rotatable relative to the printer portion; a discharge portion configured to stack the recording material discharged from an inside of the printer portion, the discharge portion being supported rotatably relative to the printer portion; and a regulating member provided between the discharge portion and the image reading portion and configured to regulate movement of the recording material stacked on the discharge portion. When the image forming apparatus is seen in a rotational axis direction of the image reading portion, at least a part of the regulating member in a state in which the image reading portion and the discharge portion are open away from the printer portion is hidden inside a contour of a casing of the image reading portion.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
a printer portion configured to form an image on a recording material;
an image reading portion mounted on said printer portion and configured to read an image on an original, said image reading portion being rotatable relative to said printer portion;
a discharge portion configured to stack the recording material discharged from an inside of said printer portion, said discharge portion being supported rotatably relative to said printer portion; and
a regulating member provided between said discharge portion and said image reading portion and configured to regulate movement of the recording material stacked on said discharge portion,
wherein when said image reading portion and said discharge portion are open away from said printer portion, (a) said regulating member is moved by said discharge portion, and then (b) an end portion of said regulating member is hidden inside a contour of a casing of said image reading portion as seen in a rotational axis direction of said image reading portion.

2. An image forming apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the end portion of said regulating member is hidden inside the contour of the casing of said image reading portion in interrelation with an operation of opening said image reading portion.

3. An image forming apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein said image reading portion includes a holding portion configured to hold said discharge portion, and said holding portion holds said discharge portion in a state in which said discharge portion is open.

4. An image forming apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein said holding portion includes a locking portion configured to lock said discharge portion.

5. An image forming apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein said discharge portion opens in interrelation with an operation of opening said image reading portion.

6. An image forming apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein said regulating member is supported by said image reading portion.

7. An image forming apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein said discharge portion is bendable.

8. An image forming apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein said discharge portion forms an opening communicating with an image forming portion configured to form the image by being opened.

Assignees

• Canon Kk

Inventors

• Tanaka Takatoshi

Classifications

• H04N1/00527

  Discharge tray at least partially sandwiched between image generating and reproducing components · CPC title

• G03G15/60

  Apparatus which relate to the handling of originals (for photographic purposes in general G03B) · CPC title

• G03G21/1623

  Means to access the interior of the apparatus · CPC title

• H04N1/00631

  Ejecting or stacking (H04N1/00641 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G03G21/1619 Primary

  Frame structures · CPC title