US 12,319,524 B2
Sheet containing apparatus and image forming apparatus
Kenichi Ishikura, Kanagawa (JP); Naoyuki Kato, Kanagawa (JP); Kenji Yamada, Kanagawa (JP); Satoshi Noda, Kanagawa (JP); Shinya Hasegawa, Kanagawa (JP); Kota Tomioka, Kanagawa (JP); Hiroyuki Tanaka, Kanagawa (JP); Yoichi Yamakawa, Kanagawa (JP); Tomonori Sato, Kanagawa (JP); Ryusuke Nakata, Kanagawa (JP); Kazuyuki Koda, Kanagawa (JP); Isamu Adachi, Kanagawa (JP); Miho Morita, Kanagawa (JP); Tomomi Ishida, Kanagawa (JP); Shinnosuke Kondo, Kanagawa (JP); Yuya Shiokawa, Kanagawa (JP); Daisuke Ishihara, Kanagawa (JP); Kohei Tachibana, Kanagawa (JP); Takahiro Iizuka, Kanagawa (JP); Shinichi Ohba, Kanagawa (JP); and Taisuke Endo, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Apr. 6, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/714,152.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-135289 (JP), filed on Aug. 23, 2021; application No. 2021-135290 (JP), filed on Aug. 23, 2021; application No. 2021-135424 (JP), filed on Aug. 23, 2021; application No. 2021-135483 (JP), filed on Aug. 23, 2021; application No. 2021-135487 (JP), filed on Aug. 23, 2021; application No. 2021-135489 (JP), filed on Aug. 23, 2021; application No. 2021-135490 (JP), filed on Aug. 23, 2021; application No. 2021-135491 (JP), filed on Aug. 23, 2021; and application No. 2022-003296 (JP), filed on Jan. 12, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0055327 A1, Feb. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. B65H 1/04 (2006.01); B65H 3/06 (2006.01); G03G 21/16 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC B65H 1/04 (2013.01) [B65H 3/06 (2013.01); G03G 21/1633 (2013.01); H04N 1/00546 (2013.01); B65H 2402/45 (2013.01); B65H 2405/11151 (2013.01); B65H 2801/03 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sheet containing apparatus comprising:
a first container unit that contains a sheet having a first size and that tilts with respect to a horizontal direction such that a first end and a second end in a width direction of the sheet containing apparatus are located at different heights with the first container unit installed in a sheet containing apparatus body when viewed in a first direction; and
a covering portion that is movable to a covering position at which the covering portion covers a whole of the first container unit in the first direction and an open position at which the covering portion uncovers the first container unit in the first direction,
wherein when viewed in the first direction, a tilting division line is adjacent to the first container unit and tilts with respect to the horizontal direction, and at least a whole of the tilting division line is covered by the covering portion in the first direction with the covering portion positioned at the covering position.