US 11,787,656 B2
Image forming apparatus
Takashi Fujiwara, Nagakute (JP); Yuji Takimoto, Handa (JP); and Shota Shinoya, Nisshin (JP)
Assigned to Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya (JP)
Filed by Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya (JP)
Filed on Aug. 17, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/994,925.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-158620 (JP), filed on Aug. 30, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0061608 A1, Mar. 4, 2021
Int. Cl. B65H 31/00 (2006.01); B65H 31/02 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01)
CPC B65H 31/00 (2013.01) [B65H 2402/30 (2013.01); B65H 2402/44 (2013.01); B65H 2551/21 (2013.01); G03G 15/6552 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
a discharging tray configured to support a sheet, the sheet being discharged toward a sheet discharging direction, the sheet discharging direction being a direction toward which the sheet is discharged;
an operation panel configured to be located at a position that is different from the position of the discharging tray in a width direction, which is orthogonal with respect to the sheet discharging direction and with respect to a vertical direction, and above the discharging tray; and
a supporting member configured to be located at the discharging tray, the supporting member being capable of supporting the discharged sheet with the discharging tray, and a front end portion of the supporting member configured to be located above an upper surface of the discharging tray,
wherein a distal end of the front end portion of the supporting member is configured to overlap the operation panel when viewed in the width direction, and
wherein the operation panel is configured to be located at a position that is different from the position of the supporting member in the width direction, and
wherein one side of the operation panel in the width direction is configured to guide one end of the sheet in the width direction supported by the supporting member.