Patent ID: 11865851

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes: a housing; an image forming part that forms an image on a recording medium; a medium discharge part that has a space opened to an outside through a front face opening off-centered toward one of left and right on a front face of the housing and a side face opening continuous from the front face opening and in which a recording medium on which an image has been formed by the image forming part is discharged to the space; a first opening and closing covering that is opened and closed to cover a part including a part of the front face opening of the medium discharge part on the front face of the housing; and a second covering that covers at least a part excluding the part covered with the first opening and closing covering on the front face of the housing, is almost perpendicular to an installation surface, and is longer in an up-down direction than the first opening and closing covering. The first opening and closing covering is attached so that a lower end part thereof in a closed state is connected to an upper part of the second covering by an opening closing support member that supports the first opening and closing covering so as to open the first opening and closing covering toward a near side with respect to the front face of the housing by rotating about at least one moving shaft, and thereby the first opening and closing covering is openable to such an extent that a distance between a lower end part thereof in an opened state and the second covering becomes 10 mm or less.