US 11,806,991 B2
Image forming apparatus configured to accommodate roll media and sheet-shaped media and feed tray therefor
Masatomo Yamaguchi, Inazawa (JP); Satoshi Miyase, Nagoya (JP); Yuya Tatematsu, Nagoya (JP); Hideaki Yoshimune, Nagoya (JP); and Gakuro Kanazawa, Toyokawa (JP)
Assigned to Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya (JP)
Filed by Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya (JP)
Filed on Dec. 28, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/563,365.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-219778 (JP), filed on Dec. 29, 2020; and application No. 2021-140668 (JP), filed on Aug. 31, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0203710 A1, Jun. 30, 2022
Int. Cl. B41J 11/00 (2006.01); B41J 11/48 (2006.01); B41J 13/02 (2006.01); B41J 13/10 (2006.01); B41J 15/04 (2006.01); B41J 15/20 (2006.01); B41J 15/22 (2006.01); B41J 15/18 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 11/0045 (2013.01) [B41J 11/485 (2013.01); B41J 13/02 (2013.01); B41J 13/103 (2013.01); B41J 15/04 (2013.01); B41J 15/18 (2013.01); B41J 15/20 (2013.01); B41J 15/22 (2013.01); B65H 2405/10 (2013.01); G03G 15/65 (2013.01); G03G 15/6529 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
a housing in which a conveying path is formed;
a feeding tray capable of being inserted into and pulled out from the housing, and including a first accommodation part in which a roll body having a configuration where a sheet-shaped medium is rolled in a roll shape is accommodated;
an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet-shaped medium provided in the conveying path;
a first guide member configured to guide a sheet-shaped medium to the conveying path; and
a second guide member supported on the housing and configured to guide a roll medium, which is a sheet-shaped medium unrolled from the roll body, to the conveying path,
wherein the second guide member is located on an opposite side to the first guide member, the roll medium being interposed between the first guide member and the second guide member,
the second guide member is further configured to be movable between a guide position where the second guide member guides the roll medium to the conveying path, and a retreat position that is more distant from the first guide member than the guide position, and
the second guide member being in the guide position does not interface with the first guide member and extends toward the conveying path.