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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2021
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Yuya Tatematsu, Nagoya, JP;
Masatomo Yamaguchi, Inazawa, JP;
Satoshi Miyase, Nagoya, JP;
Kengo Noda, Inazawa, JP;
Gakuro Kanazawa, Toyokawa, JP;
Nao Morimoto, Nagoya, JP;
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes: a housing; a feed tray insertable into and removable from the housing and accommodating a sheet-shaped medium; a feed roller feeding the sheet-shaped medium; an image forming device; and a movement mechanism. The feed tray includes: a first accommodation portion accommodating a roll body, a first sheet-shaped medium being rolled in a roll shape as the roll body; and a second accommodation portion accommodating a second sheet-shaped medium which is shorter than the first sheet-shaped medium. The movement mechanism moves to a first position where the feed roller contacts the first sheet-shaped medium unrolled from the roll body accommodated in the first accommodation portion and a second position where the feed roller contacts the second sheet-shaped medium accommodated in the second accommodation portion.