Image forming apparatus
AssigneeKonica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
InventorTakuya SUMITA
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus having: a guide that is a component of a conveyance route for a print medium; a first door that incorporates the guide, an inside of the conveyance route being exposed to an outside of a main body of the image forming apparatus when the first door is open; a functional component fixed to the first door, the functional component being placed in a specified position by contact with a component located inside the main body when the first door is closed; a first lock mechanism for keeping the first door closed; a second door that covers the first door when the second door is closed and that exposes the first door to the outside of the main body when the second door is open; and a second lock mechanism for keeping the second door closed.
Claims7
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a guide that is a component of a conveyance route for a print medium;
- a first door that incorporates the guide, an inside of the conveyance route being exposed to an outside of a main body of the image forming apparatus when the first door is open;
- a functional component fixed to the first door, the functional component being placed in a specified position by contact with a component located inside the main body when the first door is closed;
- a first lock mechanism for keeping the first door closed;
- a second door that covers the first door when the second door is closed and that exposes the first door to the outside of the main body when the second door is open;
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- a second lock mechanism for keeping the second door closed;
- wherein a closing motion of the second door in a state wherein both the first door and the second door are open activates the second lock mechanism and the first lock mechanism, whereby the first door is put closed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.