Document feeding device and image forming apparatus
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHideaki Kurimoto, Tohru Nishikawa
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Abstract
A document feeding device 10 of an image forming apparatus 1 includes a housing 14 that houses a document conveyance mechanism 15, and a document set tray 16. An upper cover 12 of the housing 14 is openable and closable with respect to a fixed cover 11, and the document set tray 16 is swingably supported. A closed position of the upper cover 12 with respect to the fixed cover 11 is set to a position overlapping with a movement trajectory M of the document set tray 16 during a swinging operation, and it is possible to open the upper cover 12 in connection with the swinging operation of the document set tray 16.
Claims7
A document feeding device comprising:
- a housing that houses a document conveyance mechanism;
- and
- a document set tray on which a document is placed, wherein
- the housing includes a first housing and a second housing that is openable and closable with respect to the first housing,
- the document set tray includes an engagement that engages with the first housing, and is swingably supported with respect to the first housing with the engagement as a fulcrum, and
- a closed position of the second housing with respect to the first housing is set to a position overlapping with a movement trajectory of the document set tray during a swinging operation, by lifting the document set tray above with the engagement as a fulcrum, the document set tray abuts against the second housing and the second housing is pushed upward while abutting against the document set tray, and the second housing is openable.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.