Title:
EJECTED SHEET STORAGE DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMATION DEVICE
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2014144862
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an ejected sheet storage device capable of appropriately aligning positions of each sheet in a sheet ejection direction on an ejected sheet table.SOLUTION: An ejected sheet storage device 30 includes: an ejected sheet table 31 having an ejected sheet placing surface 31a on which sheet P ejected in a sheet ejection direction Cd is loaded; and an ejected sheet end fence 32 provided at the ejected sheet table 31 for regulating a loading position of the sheet P in the sheet ejection direction Cd at the ejected sheet placing surface 31a. The ejected sheet end fence 32 has: a holding plate part 36 standing from the ejected sheet placing surface 31a; and a piezoelectric sheet part 37 whose deflection level is changed by supply of electric power provided at the vicinity of the holding plate part 36 and an upstream side in the sheet ejection direction Cd from the holding plate part 36 standing from the ejected sheet placing surface 31a so that an upper end part 37a is positioned in an ejection range of the sheet P by being deflected toward the upstream side.
Inventors:
OUCHI KENGO
SUGAWARA MITSUHIRO
SUGAWARA MITSUHIRO
Application Number:
JP2013015049A
Publication Date:
August 14, 2014
Filing Date:
January 30, 2013
Export Citation:
Assignee:
RICOH CO LTD
International Classes:
B65H31/36; B65H31/26
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Tamio Nishiwaki