Patent ID: 8498566
Filing Date: 2013-07-30
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus, comprising: an image carrier that moves in a set direction while carrying an image; a transfer unit that transfers the image carried on the image carrier onto a recording medium; a conveying unit that conveys the recording medium to the transfer unit; and a feeding unit that is arranged below a horizontal line passing through the transfer unit, wherein: the image carrier has a sloping surface that slopes down from upstream of the transfer unit in a conveying direction in which the recording medium is conveyed, the conveying unit, arranged upstream of the transfer unit in the conveying direction between the sloping surface and the horizontal line, configured to move the recording medium along a first conveying path region, a second conveying path region, and a third conveying path region, the recording medium further moving from the feeding unit to the second conveying path region to the first conveying path region so as to cross the horizontal line from a side of the feeding unit to a side of the first conveying path region and then to the third conveying path region, which is in parallel to the horizontal line, the second conveying path region is curved and begins below the horizontal line, crosses the horizontal line and ends above the horizontal line, connecting to the first conveying path region, the first conveying path region is linear and slopes down toward the transfer unit and a width of the first conveying path region is longer than the second and third conveying path regions in the conveying direction in a cross section perpendicular to the horizontal line, and the conveying unit further includes a first correcting unit and a second correcting unit disposed in the first conveying path region.