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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2008
Takayuki Andoh, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Takuji Takahashi, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Takamasa Shiraki, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Yoshihide Ohta, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Kohji Hatayama, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Takayuki Andoh, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Takuji Takahashi, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Takamasa Shiraki, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Yoshihide Ohta, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Kohji Hatayama, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus that includes an image reading part, an image forming part, a sheet discharge part, and a sheet stack part. The image reading part has a front surface located on a downstream side in a discharge direction of a sheet relative to a front of the sheet stack part. The sheet stack part includes a first stacker surface provided on an upstream side in the discharge direction and including a surface having a slope extending upward in the discharge direction and a second stacker surface formed adjacent to the first stacker surface and sloping less steeply upward in the discharge direction than the slope of the first stacker surface with a boundary between the first stacker surface and the second stacker surface located at a rear of the front surface of the image reading part.