US 12,286,321 B2
Manual bypass tray having opening for accommodating projection sticking out from side face of image forming apparatus main body, and image forming apparatus
Masayuki Kakuta, Osaka (JP)
Assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc., Osaka (JP)
Filed by KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc., Osaka (JP)
Filed on Apr. 18, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/136,165.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-074693 (JP), filed on Apr. 28, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0348221 A1, Nov. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. B65H 31/00 (2006.01)
CPC B65H 31/00 (2013.01) [B65H 2402/443 (2013.01)] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A manual bypass tray openably and closably attached to a side face of a main body of an image forming apparatus, and configured to enable manual feeding of a sheet, the manual bypass tray comprising:
a tray main body including a placement surface for placing the sheet, and having a portion on a downstream side in a sheet feeding direction openably and closably supported by the side face, the tray main body being set, by being made to cover the side face, to a storage position in which the tray main body is accommodated in the apparatus main body along the side face, and set, by being made to open the side face, to a sheet feeding position in which the tray main body assumes an inclined posture, such that a portion on an upstream side in the sheet feeding direction is located on an upper side of the portion on the downstream side, to enable the sheet to be placed on the placement surface; and
an auxiliary tray including an auxiliary placement surface for placing the sheet, and configured to be accommodated inside the tray main body, the auxiliary tray being movable in a draw-out direction for being drawn-out from the inside, and in a retracting direction for being retracted into the inside,
wherein the placement surface of the tray main body is provided with an opening that allows a protruding portion, protruding from the side face of the apparatus main body, to intrude into the inside of the tray main body,
the tray main body includes an opening cover supported so as to pivot about a pivotal shaft extending in a direction orthogonal to the sheet feeding direction, configured to assume, by pivoting, one of a closing posture for closing the opening, a retracted posture of being retracted from the opening into the inside of the tray main body, and a protruding posture of protruding from the opening, and formed in a shape that enables the protruding portion to be accommodated,
the auxiliary tray includes a recess located so as to oppose the opening, when the auxiliary tray is accommodated inside the tray main body, and configured to accommodate the opening cover so as to allow displacement between the closing posture and the retracted posture,
the opening cover is:
displaced to the retracted posture, thereby being accommodated inside the recess together with the protruding portion, by pivoting in the recess in contact with the protruding portion, when the tray main body is in the storage position with the auxiliary tray accommodated therein;
displaced to the closing posture by pivoting in the recess, when the tray main body is in the sheet feeding position with the auxiliary tray, accommodated therein; and
displaced to the closing posture by pivoting inside the tray main body, when the tray main body is in the sheet feeding position, with the auxiliary tray drawn out from the inside of the tray main body.