US 11,701,902 B2
Image forming apparatus
Masatomo Yamaguchi, Inazawa (JP)
Assigned to Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya (JP)
Filed by Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya (JP)
Filed on Nov. 23, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/533,429.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-196866 (JP), filed on Nov. 27, 2020; and application No. 2020-197061 (JP), filed on Nov. 27, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0169051 A1, Jun. 2, 2022
Int. Cl. B41J 15/04 (2006.01); B41J 11/70 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01); B26D 1/04 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 11/70 (2013.01) [B41J 15/042 (2013.01); G03G 15/6517 (2013.01); G03G 15/6523 (2013.01); B26D 1/045 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image forming apparatus, comprising:
a housing;
a tray detachably attachable to the housing, the tray having a storage configured to store a sheet-formed medium;
an image forming device configured to form an image on the sheet-formed medium;
a conveyer assembly configured to convey the sheet-formed medium from the storage along a conveyer path; and
a cutter configured to cut the sheet-formed medium at a predetermined position in the conveyer path,
wherein the conveyer assembly includes:
a feeder roller configured to feed the sheet-formed medium downward from the storage to the conveyer path along a bottom surface of the tray; and
an intermediate roller pair arranged in the conveyer path between the feeder roller and the image forming device,
wherein the intermediate roller pair is supported by the housing and is configured to nip the sheet-formed medium, and
wherein the predetermined position is located in the conveyer path between the feeder roller and the intermediate roller pair.
 
8. An image forming apparatus, comprising:
a storage configured to store a sheet-formed medium;
an image forming device configured to form an image on the sheet-formed medium;
a conveyer assembly configured to convey the sheet-formed medium from the storage in a conveying direction along a conveyer path; and
a cutter configured to cut the sheet-formed medium at a predetermined position in the conveyer path,
wherein the storage is configured to store a rolled body, the rolled body being the sheet-formed medium wound into a roll,
wherein the conveyer assembly includes:
a feeder roller urged to be closer to a bottom surface of the storage, the feed roller being configured to feed the sheet-formed medium from the storage to the conveyer path;
an intermediate roller arranged in the conveyer path between the feeder roller and the image forming device; and
a conveyer roller arranged in the conveyer path between the intermediate roller and the image forming device,
wherein the predetermined position is located in the conveyer path between the feeder roller and the intermediate roller, and
wherein the sheet-formed medium is unrolled downward from the roll and is urged downward against the bottom surface of the storage by the feeder roller to be conveyed along the bottom surface of the storage.