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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 13, 2001
Yoshiyuki Koshimizu, Chiba, JP;
Naoki Okuda, Chiba, JP;
Naomasa Kimura, Ibaraki, JP;
Masahiko Yashiro, Ibaraki, JP;
Hiroaki Miyake, Ibaraki, JP;
Masaaki Saito, Tokyo, JP;
Masakazu Mori, Ibaraki, JP;
Hideki Mori, Ibaraki, JP;
Takahiro Terao, Chiba, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus has a sheet support for accommodating an image-forming sheet; an image forming unit for forming an image on a sheet; a document reading section having a document placing table for reading image information of the document; an ADF in which a document is feedable to the document reading section and displaceable so as to allow placement of the document onto the document placing table; and a sheet discharging section on which a sheet with an image formed thereon by the image forming unit is discharged and stacked by arranging them in the image forming apparatus from the lower part thereof toward the upper part in order. The image forming apparatus further has a transferring section for transferring a sheet with an image formed thereon to the sheet discharging section which is held movably in the vertical direction.