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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2005
Filed:
Jun. 03, 2003
Kazuhiro Matsuyama, Ikoma, JP;
Toshio Yamanaka, Yao, JP;
Atsushi Ide, Nara, JP;
Yoshinobu Tateishi, Nara, JP;
Kenzo Yoshida, Ikoma, JP;
Fumikazu Shimanuki, Nara, JP;
Kazuhiro Matsuyama, Ikoma, JP;
Toshio Yamanaka, Yao, JP;
Atsushi Ide, Nara, JP;
Yoshinobu Tateishi, Nara, JP;
Kenzo Yoshida, Ikoma, JP;
Fumikazu Shimanuki, Nara, JP;
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
The delivered sheet stacking tray has a delivered sheet stacking surface, provided on an upside of an image forming section, which extends in a sheet-transporting direction so that a transporting-direction end of the delivered sheet stacking surface is opened toward a lateral outside of the image forming device body, wherein the delivered sheet stacking surface has a sheet removing concave which extends from (a) the transporting-direction end via (b) a stacking area of a maximum size sheet to (c) a stacking area of a minimum size sheet so that the sheet removing concave is positioned within an area ranging from the stacking area of the maximum size sheet to the stacking area of the minimum size sheet, and the sheet removing concave is formed substantially in parallel to a line linking (i) a corner portion of the stacking area of the maximum size sheet which corner portion is positioned on a downstream side in the transporting direction and on a front side of the image forming device to (ii) a corner portion of the stacking area of the minimum size sheet which corner portion is positioned on the downstream side in the transporting direction and on the front side of the image forming device, thereby realizing a preferable stacking condition of sheets on the delivered sheet stacking surface, and making it easy to remove the sheets.