Patent ID: 7664425

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: a feed unit that feeds a recording medium; an image forming unit that forms an image on the recording medium fed by the feed unit; an ejection unit that ejects the recording medium on which the image is formed by the image forming unit; a power-source circuit board on which a power source that feeds electric power to the image forming unit is mounted, the power-source circuit board being arranged on at least one of two side frames of the image forming apparatus, the two side frames being positioned, respectively, on sides of the recording medium in parallel with a feeding direction of the recording medium; a control circuit board on which a controller that controls the image forming unit is mounted, the control circuit board being arranged on at least one of the two side frames; and a conveyance path that conveys the recording medium and being inclined downwards toward an image formation position at which the image is formed by the image forming unit from a position where the recording medium fed by the feed unit separates away from the feed unit, the conveyance path being arranged that: a pickup direction that the feed unit picks up the recording medium and an image-formation-state conveyance direction that the conveyance path conveys the recording medium at the image formation position are configured to be opposite with each other; and the image formation-state conveyance direction and an ejection direction that the ejection unit ejects the recording medium on which the image is formed by the image forming unit are configured to be opposite with each other, wherein the conveyance path is provided with a guide plate that is opposite a lower surface of the recording medium, the guide plate having a reinforcement plate at a lower surface of the guide plate, and the guide plate having at least an upstream side end part that is upstream with respect to the conveyance direction, wherein the guide plate supports the feed unit at the upstream side end part, and the guide plate is formed by cutting away a region where the feed unit is disposed from the upstream side end part of the guide plate.