US 2020/0050141 A1Published application

Image forming apparatus

AssigneeKYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.

InventorMayuko Murota

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Abstract

Plural covers installed on a housing are capable of being opened and closed. Cover lock units lock and unlock a predetermined cover among the plural covers in accordance with a control signal. A lock control unit controls the cover lock units and changes a status of the cover among lock status and unlock status. The plural covers include a first cover, a second cover, and a third cover. On the first cover, the cover lock unit is not installed. On the second cover, the cover lock unit is installed and a predetermined user and a service person are allowed to unlock the second cover. On the third cover, the cover lock unit is installed and the service person is allowed to unlock to the third cover. The lock control unit determines whether the lock control unit unlocks the second cover or not on the basis of a user level.

Claims3

Dependent claims

An image forming apparatus, comprising:

plural covers installed on a housing, the plural covers capable of being opened and closed;
plural cover lock units configured to lock a predetermined cover among the plural covers and unlock the predetermined cover in accordance with a control signal;
and
a lock control unit configured to control the cover lock units and thereby change a status of the cover from one to the other among lock status and unlock status;
wherein the plural covers include a first cover, a second cover, and a third cover, the first cover on which the cover lock unit is not installed, the second cover on which the cover lock unit is installed and that a predetermined user and a service person are allowed to unlock, the third cover on which the cover lock unit is installed and that the service person is allowed to unlock;
and
the lock control unit determines whether the lock control unit unlocks the second cover or not on the basis of a user level of either a user who is in login status or an authenticated user.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/531,791Filed 5 Aug 2019
Priority: JP 2018-1498509 Aug 2018
Published: 13 Feb 2020
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Classification7 codes

G03G 21/1633
Means to access the interior of the apparatus: using doors or covers
G03G 15/50
Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern: machine control of apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern,…
G03G 15/5016
Machine control of apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern, e.g. regulating differents parts of the machine, multimode…:…
G03G 15/5091
Remote control machines, e.g. by a host: for user-identification or authorisation