Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Ryusei Kominato

Shinsuke Ubayashi

Yasumi Yoshida

Makoto Tanaka

Takeshi Aoyama

Hiroyuki Takahara

Mitsuhiro Mukasa

Hironobu Saito

An image forming apparatus has an image forming device for forming an image on a sheet, a discharged-sheet receiving device provided at an upper part of a casing including the image forming device, for receiving the sheet with an image formed thereon after being discharged, and a receiving frame for receiving the casing including the image forming device, the receiving frame being provided with a guide unit for guiding the sheet received in the discharged-sheet receiving device. The guide unit guides the sheet received in the discharged-sheet receiving device to be removed so that the sheet does not interfere with the receiving frame when the sheet is removed.

Image forming apparatus including discharged-sheet receiving tray covered with frame

A sheet feeding apparatus with a sheet supporting unit for supporting sheets, a sheet absorb device for air-absorbing a lowermost sheet from among the sheets supported by the sheet supporting unit, a conveyer for conveying the sheet absorbed to the sheet absorb device, a regulator for regulating a downward movement of the sheets supported by the sheet supporting unit by abutting tip ends of such sheets against the regulator, a passage arranged between the conveyer and the regulator and adapted to guide the sheet conveyed by the conveyer, and a controller for driving the conveyer in a reverse direction after the sheet conveyed by the conveyer is fed out through the passage.

Sheet feeding apparatus with sheet absorb means and a conveyor

The present invention provides a sheet supply apparatus with a sheet supporting unit for supporting sheets, a sheet absorb device for absorbing a sheet supported by the sheet supporting unit to separate the sheet from the other sheets, a conveyer for conveying the sheet absorbed by the sheet absorb means, and a sheet feature detecting device for detecting rigidity of the sheet absorbed by the sheet absorb device.

Sheet supply apparatus

The present invention provides a sheet supply apparatus with a sheet support for supporting a plurality of sheets, a first sheet absorb unit arranged facing a sheet surface of the sheet stack supported by the sheet support for absorbing the sheet by air suction, a second sheet absorb unit arranged facing a tip end of the sheet stack in a sheet supply direction for absorbing the sheet by air suction and a conveyer for conveying the sheet absorbed to the first and second sheet absorb units. The first sheet absorb unit and the second sheet absorb unit are respectively disposed at positions where the first sheet absorb unit is substantially parallel to the sheet surface and the second sheet absorb unit is inclined relative to the sheet surface. When a sheet stops a feeding unit operates in response to return the sheet to the sheet stack as the sheet is being absorbed by the first sheet absorb unit.

The present invention provides an image forming apparatus having an image forming device for forming a non-fixed image on a recording sheet, a fixing rotary member for fixing the non-fixed image to the recording sheet, a containing portion for containing the recording sheet to which the image was fixed by the fixing rotary member, a re-feeding device for re-feeding the recording sheet contained in the containing portion to the image forming device, and a coating device for coating a parting liquid to the fixing rotary member.

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Tokyo, Japan

Ryusei Kominato