Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus
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Application No.: US14926094Application Date: 2015-10-29
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Publication No.: US09606491B2Publication Date: 2017-03-28
- Inventor: Atsushi Miwa , Shougo Sato
- Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Applicant Address: JP Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken
- Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken
- Agency: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.
- Priority: JP2014-223000 20141031
- Main IPC: G03G15/23
- IPC: G03G15/23 ; G03G15/00 ; B65H5/06 ; B65H5/36 ; B65H9/00 ; B65H29/12 ; B65H85/00

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes: an electrophotographic image forming section; a sheet feeding tray; a conveying roller; a sheet discharging tray; a sheet discharging roller that is switched between a first state in which the sheet discharging roller rotates in a first direction and a second state in which the sheet discharging roller rotates in a second direction in which the sheet is conveyed back toward the image forming section; and a re-conveying roller that conveys the sheet conveyed back toward the image forming section by the sheet discharging roller, the re-conveying roller having an axial direction parallel to an axial direction of the conveying roller and being located at a position at which the re-conveying roller projected onto a first virtual plane that is perpendicular to the axial direction at least partially overlap with the conveying roller projected onto the first virtual plane.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160124370A1 Image Forming Apparatus Public/Granted day:2016-05-05
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