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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2018
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Hiromitsu Tomioka, Kanagawa, JP;
Teruki Naganuma, Kanagawa, JP;
Keita Yano, Kanagawa, JP;
Yuki Sekura, Kanagawa, JP;
Kohei Takahashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Junichi Asaoka, Kanagawa, JP;
Yuichiro Shimura, Kanagawa, JP;
Mizuki Arai, Kanagawa, JP;
Akira Iwasaka, Kanagawa, JP;
FUJI XEROX CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes: an apparatus body including an image former that forms an image on a recording material; a covering part that is provided in the apparatus body and leaves an inside of the apparatus body open by being opened in an opening direction with respect to the apparatus body; a reversing unit that is housed by the apparatus body and discharges part of the recording material on which the image is formed by the image former externally of the apparatus body, and reverses a transport direction of the recording material; and a guiding unit that is provided adjacent to a downstream side of the covering part in the opening direction, guides the recording material discharged through the apparatus body by the reversing unit, and when the covering part is opened with respect to the apparatus body, the guiding unit moves relatively with respect to the covering part in an opposite direction of the opening direction.