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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2023
Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Masayuki Kakuta, Osaka, JP;
KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A manual bypass tray includes a tray main body and an auxiliary tray. A placement surface of the tray main body is provided with an opening. The tray main body includes an opening cover. The auxiliary tray includes a recess. The opening cover is displaced to a retracted posture, thereby being accommodated inside the recess, together with a protruding portion protruding from a side face of a main body of an image forming apparatus, when the tray main body is in a storage position with the auxiliary tray accommodated therein, displaced to a closing posture, when the tray main body is in a sheet feeding position with the auxiliary tray accommodated therein, and displaced to a closing posture when the tray main body is in the sheet feeding position, with the auxiliary tray drawn out from the inside of the tray main body.