# US 11,614,709 B1 · Accommodating device and image forming apparatus > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,614,709 B1 - Document ID: US11614709B1 - Status: Granted - Kind: B1 - Application number: 17/743,462 - Filed: 2022-05-13 - Granted: 2023-03-28 - Earliest claimed: 2021-11-19 - Assignees: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. - Applicants: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. - Inventors: Kota Tomioka; Hiroyuki Tanaka; Yoichi Yamakawa; Shinya Hasegawa - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11614709B1 ## CPC - G03G 15/6502: {Supplying of sheet copy material; Cassettes therefor} - G03G 21/1695: {for paper transport} - G03G 21/1638: {directed to paper handling or jam treatment} - G03G 2215/00383: Cassette - G03G 2215/00388: rotatable - G03G 2221/1684: using extractable subframes, e.g. on rails or hinges - G03G: ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; MAGNETOGRAPHY ## Abstract An accommodating device includes a device body, an accommodating unit that accommodates a medium in the device body, and an expanding and contracting member that expands and contracts to connect the accommodating unit to the device body so as to be pulled out and has a part fixed to the accommodating unit on an inner side with respect to a side surface of the accommodating unit in an intersecting direction with a pulling direction of the accommodating unit and on a lower side of the accommodating unit in a vertical direction. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An accommodating device comprising: a device body; an accommodating unit that accommodates a medium in the device body; and an expanding and contracting member that expands and contracts to connect the accommodating unit to the device body so as to be pulled out and has a part fixed to the accommodating unit on an inner side with respect to a side surface of the accommodating unit in an intersecting direction with a pulling direction of the accommodating unit and on a lower side of the accommodating unit in a vertical direction. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The accommodating device according to claim 1, wherein the expanding and contracting member is fixed at a position shifted from a center of the accommodating unit in the intersecting direction, and a centroid position of the accommodating unit is located on an expanding and contracting member side with respect to the center in the intersecting direction. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The accommodating device according to claim 2, wherein a bent portion of a metal sheet having a main surface forming at least a part of a lower surface of the accommodating unit, which is obtained by bending a part of the main surface downward, is formed at a position on the expanding and contracting member side with respect to the center of the accommodating unit in the intersecting direction, and the expanding and contracting member is fixed to the bent portion. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The accommodating device according to claim 3, wherein on an opposite side to the expanding and contracting member side with respect to the center of the accommodating unit in the intersecting direction, at least a part of an end portion of the metal sheet is located on the inner side of the side surface of the accommodating unit. ### Claim 5 (depends on 2) The accommodating device according to claim 2, wherein the accommodating unit is configured to accommodate the medium by bringing the medium into contact with an inner wall surface on the expanding and contracting member side with respect to the center of the accommodating unit in the intersecting direction. ### Claim 6 (depends on 3) The accommodating device according to claim 3, wherein the accommodating unit is configured to accommodate the medium by bringing the medium into contact with an inner wall surface on the expanding and contracting member side with respect to the center of the accommodating unit in the intersecting direction. ### Claim 7 (depends on 4) The accommodating device according to claim 4, wherein the accommodating unit is configured to accommodate the medium by bringing the medium into contact with an inner wall surface on the expanding and contracting member side with respect to the center of the accommodating unit in the intersecting direction. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The accommodating device according to claim 1, wherein the device body includes a support portion that supports the accommodating unit in a state where the accommodating unit is located in the device body. ### Claim 9 (depends on 2) The accommodating device according to claim 2, wherein the device body includes a support portion that supports the accommodating unit in a state where the accommodating unit is located in the device body. ### Claim 10 (depends on 3) The accommodating device according to claim 3, wherein the device body includes a support portion that supports the accommodating unit in a state where the accommodating unit is located in the device body. ### Claim 11 (depends on 4) The accommodating device according to claim 4, wherein the device body includes a support portion that supports the accommodating unit in a state where the accommodating unit is located in the device body. ### Claim 12 (depends on 5) The accommodating device according to claim 5, wherein the device body includes a support portion that supports the accommodating unit in a state where the accommodating unit is located in the device body. ### Claim 13 (depends on 6) The accommodating device according to claim 6, wherein the device body includes a support portion that supports the accommodating unit in a state where the accommodating unit is located in the device body. ### Claim 14 (depends on 7) The accommodating device according to claim 7, wherein the device body includes a support portion that supports the accommodating unit in a state where the accommodating unit is located in the device body. ### Claim 15 (depends on 8) The accommodating device according to claim 8, wherein a support pin extending in the pulling direction is formed as the support portion inside the device body, a hole is formed in a surface orthogonal to the pulling direction of the accommodating unit, and in a state where the accommodating unit is located in the device body, the support pin is inserted into the hole, and the accommodating unit is supported by the support pin. ### Claim 16 (depends on 9) The accommodating device according to claim 9, wherein a support pin extending in the pulling direction is formed as the support portion inside the device body, a hole is formed in a surface orthogonal to the pulling direction of the accommodating unit, and in a state where the accommodating unit is located in the device body, the support pin is inserted into the hole, and the accommodating unit is supported by the support pin. ### Claim 17 (depends on 10) The accommodating device according to claim 10, wherein a support pin extending in the pulling direction is formed as the support portion inside the device body, a hole is formed in a surface orthogonal to the pulling direction of the accommodating unit, and in a state where the accommodating unit is located in the device body, the support pin is inserted into the hole, and the accommodating unit is supported by the support pin. ### Claim 18 (depends on 15) The accommodating device according to claim 15, wherein the hole is formed on an outer side of an accommodation range of the medium in the surface orthogonal to the pulling direction of the accommodating unit. ### Claim 19 (depends on 1) The accommodating device according to claim 1, further comprising: at least one or more other accommodating units that are able to be pulled out from the device body in the pulling direction and are different from the accommodating unit, wherein front side surfaces of all of the accommodating units in the pulling direction are configured to be pulled out to substantially the same position in the pulling direction. ### Claim 20 (depends on 1) An image forming apparatus comprising: the accommodating device according to claim 1; and an image forming unit that forms an image on a medium, which is accommodated in the accommodating device and is transported.