JP2014118231A5

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Publication number: JP2014118231A5
Application number: JP2012272626A
Authority: JP
Filing date: 2012-12-13
Publication date: 2016-02-04
Anticipated expiration: 2032-12-13

Description

上記の目的を達成するための本発明の画像形成装置は、
開口部が形成された装置本体と、シートに画像を形成する画像形成部と、前記画像形成部により画像が形成されたシートを搬送する搬送手段と、前記搬送手段により搬送されたシートを前記装置本体の内部に収容する複数のシート収容部と、前記シート収容部に収容されたシートを移動させ、少なくとも前記シートの一部が前記開口部から前記装置本体の外部に露出するまで前記シートを移動させるシート移動手段と、を有する画像形成装置において、１つの前記シート収容部に収容できる枚数よりも多い所定の枚数のシートを収容する場合、前記搬送手段は前記複数のシート収容部にシートを搬送し、前記シート移動手段は前記複数のシート収容部に収容されたシートを重ねた状態にして前記開口部から露出させることを特徴とする。 In order to achieve the above object, an image forming apparatus of the present invention comprises:
A device body having an opening formed, an image forming unit for forming an image on a sheet, and conveying means for conveying the by the image forming unit the image has been formed sheet, said apparatus being conveyed sheet by the conveying means a plurality of sheet accommodating portion for accommodating in the body, before SL moves the accommodated sheets to the sheet accommodating portion, the sheet to at least a portion of the sheet is exposed to the outside of the apparatus main body from the opening in the image forming apparatus having a sheet moving means for moving the, the, one of the case where a sheet of sheet accommodating predetermined greater than the number that can be accommodated in unit number to yield capacity, wherein the conveying means sheet to said plurality of sheet accommodating portion And the sheet moving means exposes the sheets accommodated in the plurality of sheet accommodating portions in a stacked state.

Claims

An apparatus body in which an opening is formed;
An image forming unit for forming an image on a sheet;
Conveying means for conveying a sheet on which an image is formed by the image forming unit;
A plurality of sheet accommodating portions for accommodating the sheets conveyed by the conveying means in the apparatus main body ;
Moving the contained sheet prior Symbol sheet housing section, in an image forming apparatus having a sheet moving means for moving the sheet to at least a portion of the sheet is exposed to the outside of the apparatus main body from the opening ,
If you yield capacity more predetermined number of sheets than the number of images that can be accommodated in one of the sheet accommodating portion, said conveying means conveys the sheet to said plurality of sheet accommodating portion, said sheet moving means of the plurality of sheet storage An image forming apparatus, wherein the sheet accommodated in the portion is overlaid and exposed from the opening.

2. The predetermined number of sheets is greater than the number of sheets that can be accommodated in one sheet accommodating portion, and is equal to or less than the number that can be accommodated in all the sheet accommodating portions in which no sheets are accommodated. The image forming apparatus described.

The transporting unit selects the sheet storage unit that transports a sheet according to the order of pages on which an image is formed by the image forming unit and the positional relationship of the sheet storage unit that does not store the sheet. The image forming apparatus according to claim 2.

An apparatus body in which an opening is formed;
An image forming unit for forming an image on a sheet;
Conveying means for conveying a sheet on which an image is formed by the image forming unit;
A plurality of sheet accommodating portions for accommodating the sheets conveyed by the conveying means in the apparatus main body ;
Moving the contained sheet prior Symbol sheet housing section, in an image forming apparatus having a sheet moving means for moving the sheet to at least a portion of the sheet is exposed to the outside of the apparatus main body from the opening ,
A control unit for rearranging the order of pages on which images are formed in the image forming unit;
In a state where a sheet is stored in at least one of the plurality of sheet storage portions, a sheet storage portion in which a sheet is not stored is a first group, and a sheet storage portion in which a sheet is stored a second group, said first larger than the number that can be accommodated in all the sheet storing units belonging to the group given number of sheets to yield capacity to case, sheet container by the control unit belongs to the first group An image forming apparatus that rearranges the order of pages on which an image is formed according to a positional relationship between a sheet storage unit and a sheet storage unit belonging to the second group.

The predetermined number of sheets is larger than the number of sheets that can be stored in all the sheet storage units belonging to the first group, and all the sheet storage units including the first group and the second group hold sheets. When the number of sheet storage units belonging to the first group is less than the number of sheets that can be stored when not stored, and the control unit is positioned at an end of the plurality of sheet storage units, the sheet storage unit is positioned at the end. The image forming apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the order of pages on which an image is formed is rearranged so that a sheet of a first page or an end page of the predetermined number of sheets is accommodated.

The image forming unit forms an image on the sheet by the number of sheets that can be accommodated in all the sheet accommodating units belonging to the first group according to the order of the pages rearranged by the control unit, and the conveying unit The image forming apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the formed sheets are sequentially conveyed to a sheet storage unit belonging to the first group.

The sheet moving means does not expose the sheet accommodated in the sheet accommodating portion belonging to the first group and the sheet accommodated in the sheet accommodating portion belonging to the second group from being overlapped with each other. The image forming apparatus according to claim 6.

When a sheet is taken out from the sheet storage unit belonging to the second group, the image forming unit corresponds to the number of sheets that can be stored in the sheet storage unit from which the sheet has been extracted according to the order of the pages rearranged by the control unit. The image forming apparatus according to claim 7, wherein an image is formed on a sheet, and the conveyance unit sequentially conveys the sheet on which the image is formed to a sheet storage unit from which the sheet is taken out.

When the predetermined number of sheets are stored in the plurality of sheet storage units, the sheet moving unit puts all the sheets in which the order of pages on which images are formed by the control unit are stacked. The image forming apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the image forming apparatus is exposed from the opening.

The sheet moving means moves the sheet accommodated in the sheet accommodating portion, moves the sheet to a state where a part of the sheet is exposed to the outside of the apparatus main body from the opening, and in the state, the sheet The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the movement of the image forming apparatus is stopped.

The image according to any one of claims 1 to 10, wherein the sheet moving unit exposes the sheets accommodated in the plurality of sheet accommodating portions in a stacked state, from the same opening. Forming equipment.