Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Yuka Kurusu

Kazunori Konno

Hisayoshi Sugawara

Masato Hashimoto

Yoshifumi Ohtsuka

A sheet feeding device includes a sheet tray, an extended bottom plate, a casing, and a support. The sheet tray includes a bottom plate and feeds a sheet placed on the bottom plate, toward an image forming apparatus. The extended bottom plate extends outward from the sheet feeding device and is coupled to an upstream end of the bottom plate of the sheet tray in a sheet conveyance direction in which the sheet is conveyed. The casing is attached to a side face of the sheet feeding device to cover the extended bottom plate. The support is disposed between an inner wall face of the casing and the extended bottom plate to support a weight load of the extended bottom plate.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Yuka Kurusu