Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Tsuyoshi Sawamoto

Naoki Oikawa

Munehisa Fuda

Masanobu Yoshida

Ryuhei Waragai

Yukihiko Natsui

Masaru Ohba

Yusaku Matsumoto

An image forming apparatus includes a sheet bundle housing unit that houses recording sheets piled as a sheet bundle; a swing member having a sheet contact portion on one end side, and swinging between a projection position at which the sheet contact portion projects above a sheet placement surface of the housing unit and a non-projection position at which the sheet contact portion does not project above the sheet placement surface, the swing member moving from the projection position to the non-projection position by the sheet bundle; a sheet detection unit that detects the sheet bundle in the housing unit using the swing member; and an interlocking mechanism that moves the swing member to the non-projection position, regardless of presence or absence of the sheet bundle in the housing unit, by interlocking with the housing unit being pulled out from an apparatus body.

Image forming apparatus

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Kanagawa, Japan

Tsuyoshi Sawamoto