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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2009
Filed:
May. 17, 2006
Applicant:
Yasuhiro Miyake, Osaka, JP;
Inventor:
Yasuhiro Miyake, Osaka, JP;
Assignee:
Kyocera Mita Corporation, , JP;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 1/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An object of the present invention is to facilitate the inspection of a driving unit for a lifting mechanism for lifting up sheets stacked in a sheet cassette and the detachment thereof from a main body of an image forming apparatus. In order to accomplish this object, the driving unit is detachably mounted on a main frame at a position near a cassette insertion opening that is an insertion opening for the sheet cassette into a cassette accommodating space.