Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Masahito Ohtsuka

Hiroo Kobayashi

Hiroaki Miyake

Tsuyoshi Waragai

Yoshiro Tsuchiya

Toshifumi Moritani

Tadashi Yagi

Hiroshi Yukimachi

Takahiro Azeta

Takahiro Azeda

Takao Yokomizo

The present invention provides an image forming apparatus with a supply roller for supplying a sheet, a supply path for directing the sheet to an image forming section, a sheet ejecting path for the sheet on which an image is formed at the image forming section toward an ejecting section, a space integrally formed in a lower part of a body of the image forming apparatus, a branch path branched from the sheet ejecting path and adapted to direct the sheet toward the space, an introduction path for directing the sheet from the space to the supply path, and a sheet re-feeing unit removable with respect to the body of the image forming apparatus and including a sheet re-feeding path having an entrance facing the branch path and an exit facing the introduction path.

Image forming apparatus having re-feeding unit

The present invention provides an image forming apparatus having a first image forming unit incorporating an image formation processing device therein, a sheet supply station for feeding a sheet to the first image forming unit, and a sheet ejecting station for ejecting the sheet on which an image is formed by the first image forming unit out of the image forming apparatus. Wherein a second image forming unit having the same function and size as those of the first image forming unit is mounted within the image forming apparatus and a sheet inlet of the second image forming unit is directly connected to the sheet ejecting station.

Image forming apparatus with plural forming units

Growing community of inventors

Kawasaki, Japan

Masahito Ohtsuka