Image forming apparatus provided with output tray and...

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2011-05-17

2011-05-17

Karmis, Stefanos (Department: 3653)

Sheet feeding or delivering

Delivering

Multiple discharge

C271S278000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07942413

ABSTRACT:
In an image forming apparatus, a sheet is discharged onto an output tray. The image forming apparatus includes a ranging sensor which measures a distance to an object from a position located away by a predetermined distance from a bottom surface of the output tray in a sheet loading direction on a line in parallel with the bottom surface of the output tray and orthogonal to a direction in which the sheet is discharged. In the image forming apparatus, discharge of the sheet onto the output tray is stopped when the distance to the object measured by the ranging sensor is lower than a specific distance.

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Japanese Notice of Grounds of Rejection mailed Oct. 6, 2009, directed to Japanese Patent Application No. 2007-295830; 4 pages.

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