US 2014/0369713 A1Published application

Opening-closing mechanism and image-forming apparatus

AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorsKenichi Nakao, Shinkichi Yamamoto

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Abstract

A movable member 51 is movable with respect to the main body in conjunction with the movement of an opening-closing member 52 while changing a posture relative to the opening-closing member 52 such that a gap between the movable member 51 and the opening-closing member 52 is gradually reduced when the opening-closing member 52 moves from the open position toward the closed position. The movable member 51 is configured such that where an article is inserted into the gap when the opening-closing member 52 moves from the open position toward the closed position, the movement path is switched, by the reaction force received from the article inserted into the gap, from a first path along which the movable member moves while reducing the gap to a second path in which the gap is not reduced.

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Dependent claims

An opening-closing mechanism comprising:

an opening-closing member provided to be movable with respect to a main body of an image-forming apparatus, between an open position in which the interior of the main body is open and a closed position in which the interior of the main body is closed;
and
a movable member provided to be movable with respect to the main body in conjunction with the movement of the opening-closing member such that a gap between the movable member and the opening-closing member is reduced as the opening-closing member moves from the open position toward the closed position, wherein
where an article is not inserted into the gap between the movable member and the opening-closing member and when the opening-closing member moves from the open position toward the closed position, the movable member moves along a first path, and where an article is inserted into the gap between the movable member and the opening-closing member and when the opening-closing member moves from the open position toward the closed position, the movable member moves along a second path which is different from the first path and in which the gap is not reduced.

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An image-forming apparatus that forms an image on a recording medium, comprising:

an opening-closing member provided to be movable with respect to a main body of the image-forming apparatus, between an open position in which the interior of the main body is open and a closed position in which the interior of the main body is closed;
and
a movable member provided to be movable with respect to the main body in conjunction with the movement of the opening-closing member such that a gap between the movable member and the opening-closing member is reduced as the opening-closing member moves from the open position toward the closed position, wherein
where an article is not inserted into the gap between the movable member and the opening-closing member and when the opening-closing member moves from the open position toward the closed position, the movable member moves along a first path, and where an article is inserted into the gap between the movable member and the opening-closing member and when the opening-closing member moves from the open position toward the closed position, the movable member moves along a second path which is different from the first path and in which the gap is not reduced.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.