Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Hiroyoshi Ogawa

Takashi Toda

A drive switching mechanism includes a first gear, a second gear, a support member for movably supporting the first gear and the second gear, and a switching unit that moves the support member to reverse an output direction of the first gear and the second gear.

Drive switching mechanism and image forming apparatus including same

All the constituent members of a tray for example, a side guide a paper separating claw a tray body a drawing handle member a member for regulating an end guide and a holding member for holding a retard roll each have a snap-fit structure. Therefore, the assembling and disassembling of the tray can be easily performed. The tray is formed only from members that enable all the steps of processes of assembling and disassembling the tray to be performed from the same direction without changing the orientation of the tray.

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Saitama, Japan

Hiroyoshi Ogawa