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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2003
Yoshikatsu Kameyama, Gifu-ken, JP;
Yoichi Horaguchi, Tajimi, JP;
Shigeharu Katayama, Kakamigahara, JP;
Kazuhiro Hoshiya, Nagoya, JP;
Yoshikatsu Kameyama, Gifu-ken, JP;
Yoichi Horaguchi, Tajimi, JP;
Shigeharu Katayama, Kakamigahara, JP;
Kazuhiro Hoshiya, Nagoya, JP;
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Abstract
An image formation apparatus including an image reading device that reads an image recorded on a document, an image forming apparatus in which the image can be formed on a recording medium, based on image information read by the image reading device, and an ejecting portion which is arranged between the image forming apparatus and the image reading device and which ejects the recording medium on which the image has been formed, wherein the ejecting portion includes side walls that are adjacent to each other and sandwich the ejected recording medium and a concave portion that is formed so as to be depressed toward an upstream side in a recording medium ejecting direction and located downstream in the recording medium ejecting direction of at least one of the side walls.