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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 09, 2015
Yoshihide Ohta, Kanagawa, JP;
Tomoyuki Nishikawa, Saitama, JP;
Yoshihide Ohta, Kanagawa, JP;
Tomoyuki Nishikawa, Saitama, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus is provided, including an apparatus body; an image forming unit to form an image on a sheet member; and a sheet ejection container including a sheet ejection tray on which the sheet member ejected from the apparatus body is stacked. In the image forming apparatus, at least one side of the apparatus body is open and the sheet ejection container is disposed inside the apparatus body at the open side. The sheet ejection tray is configured to be movable between a first position in the sheet ejection container where the sheet member is ejected to the sheet member tray and a second position nearer to the open side than the first position.