Image forming apparatus
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorShinji NAKAZAWA
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Abstract
In one embodiment of an image forming apparatus of the present invention, the image forming apparatus includes an opening/closing cover that is supported so as to be capable of moving relative to an image forming apparatus main body and opens/closes an opening portion of the image forming apparatus main body; and a unit installed so as to be capable of swinging on an image forming apparatus main body side of the opening/closing cover, in which when the opening/closing cover is opened/closed, the unit moves in a track that moves around a guide shaft of the unit, and in a track that moves so as to follow opening/closing of the opening/closing cover.
Claims8
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming apparatus main body;
- an opening/closing member disposed on a side of the image forming apparatus main body so as to open and close an opening of the image forming apparatus main body;
- and
- a unit installed on the opening/closing member;
- wherein
- the unit is installed flexibly movably on the opening/closing member by a support shaft member disposed on a side of the opening/closing member, a slit disposed on a side of the unit and a biasing member that biases the unit toward the image forming apparatus main body, wherein
- when a closing operation of the opening/closing member is performed, a positioning member disposed on the image forming apparatus main body engages with a positioned member disposed on the unit so that the unit is positioned, and wherein
- when the opening/closing member is closed, a direction of operation of pressing force, which the unit receives from the image forming apparatus main body, faces obliquely downward on the side of the opening/closing member.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming apparatus main body;
- an opening/closing member disposed rotatably on a side of the image forming apparatus main body so as to open and close an opening of the image forming apparatus main body;
- and
- a unit installed on the opening/closing member;
- wherein
- the unit is installed flexibly movably on the opening/closing member by a support shaft member disposed on a side of the opening/closing member, a slit disposed on each of both sides of the unit and a spring member that biases the unit toward the image forming apparatus main body, wherein
- when a closing operation of the opening/closing member is performed, a positioning member disposed on the image forming apparatus main body engages with a positioned member disposed on the unit so that the unit is positioned, and wherein
- when the opening/closing member is closed, a direction of operation of pressing force, which the unit receives from the image forming apparatus main body, faces obliquely downward on the side of the opening/closing member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.