US 12,032,309 B2
Image forming apparatus having a stacking portion with first and second surfaces
Akinori Mitsumata, Tokyo (JP); Takeo Kawanami, Kanagawa (JP); and Masaaki Sato, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jul. 1, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/855,973.
Application 17/855,973 is a continuation of application No. 17/156,719, filed on Jan. 25, 2021, granted, now 11,402,767.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-020198 (JP), filed on Feb. 7, 2020; and application No. 2020-070709 (JP), filed on Apr. 10, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0334516 A1, Oct. 20, 2022
Int. Cl. G03G 15/08 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01); G03G 21/16 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 15/0877 (2013.01) [G03G 15/0865 (2013.01); G03G 15/6552 (2013.01); G03G 15/6573 (2013.01); G03G 21/1633 (2013.01); G03G 15/0874 (2013.01); G03G 2215/00421 (2013.01); G03G 2215/0636 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image forming apparatus to which a supplying container that stores developer is configured to be detachably attached and which forms a toner image on a recording material, the image forming apparatus comprising:
a developer container comprising a storage portion and a supplying inlet, the storage portion being configured to store developer, the developer being supplied from the supplying container to the storage portion through the supplying inlet;
a discharging portion configured to discharge a recording material, onto which a toner image has been transferred, in a discharging direction;
a discharging outlet through which the recording material is discharged to an outside of the image forming apparatus by the discharging portion;
a top portion which is a part of a top surface of an exterior of the image forming apparatus, the top portion being positioned downstream of the discharging outlet in the discharging direction, and
an external surface that is a part of a side surface of the exterior of the image forming apparatus,
wherein the top portion comprises:
a first surface on which the recording material discharged from the discharging outlet is stacked, the first surface being configured to pivot between a closed position where the first surface covers the supplying inlet and an open position where the first surface exposes the supplying inlet; and
a second surface which is positioned outward with respect to the discharging outlet in a width direction orthogonal to the discharging direction,
wherein the supplying inlet is located below the first surface,
wherein a downstream end of the first surface is positioned downstream of a downstream end of the second surface in the discharging direction,
wherein the supplying inlet is exposed in a case where the first surface pivots from the closed position to the open position without the second surface pivoting,
wherein the external surface is disposed downstream of the second surface and extends along a vertical direction and the width direction,
wherein a downstream end, in the discharging direction, of the first surface is disposed downstream of the external surface in the discharging direction in a case where the first surface is positioned at the closed position, and
wherein the supplying container attached to an apparatus body of the image forming apparatus hinders the first surface from pivoting from the open position to the closed position.