Image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMasaki Kakitani
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus forming an image on a sheet, including: an exterior member movable with respect to an apparatus main body; a locking portion locking the exterior member to the apparatus main body such that the exterior member is not moved with respect to the apparatus main body; a display portion which is disposed on the exterior member and displays a state of the locking portion; and a light source turning on the display portion, in which the display portion includes a thin portion which is a part of the exterior member, has a thickness less than thicknesses of other portions of the exterior member, and transmits light from the light source.
Claims23
An image forming apparatus forming an image on a sheet, the apparatus comprising:
- an exterior member configured to open and close with respect to an apparatus main body;
- a locking portion configured to lock the exterior member to the apparatus main body such that the exterior member is not moved with respect to the apparatus main body;
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- a light source configured to emit light;
- wherein the exterior member includes a thin portion which is made of the same material as other portions of the exterior member and is thinner than thicknesses of the other portions of the exterior member, and which allows penetration of the light from the light source so that the exterior member displays a status of the locking portion by the light penetrating at the thin portion.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a conveying unit including a first conveying path on which a sheet is conveyed and drawable in a drawing direction with respect to the apparatus main body,
- an exterior member configured to open with respect to an apparatus main body so that the conveying unit can be drawn in the drawing direction;
- a locking portion which is configured to lock the exterior member to the apparatus main body such that the exterior member is not moved with respect to the apparatus main body;
- a light source configured to emit light;
- a display portion disposed on the exterior member and displaying a state of the locking portion by penetrating the light from the light source;
- a door movably supported on the apparatus main body in which a second conveying path on which the sheet is conveyed is configured to be opened by moving the door with respect to the apparatus main body;
- another display portion configured to display a jam recovery procedure;
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- a control unit which allows the another display portion to display that the door is urged to be opened while allowing the display portion to display that the exterior member is locked when a jam occurs.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.