Image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorNaoki Yanokura
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Abstract
In image forming apparatus including: a frame; a front cover that is fixed to a front surface of the frame; and an upper cover includes a plurality of engaging portions that is engaged with the front cover fixed to a front surface of the frame, the front cover includes a front-back regulating portion that is engaged with a first engaging portion included in the upper cover and regulates a position of the upper cover in the front-back direction, an up-down regulating portion that is engaged with a second engaging portion included in the upper cover and regulates a position of the upper cover in the up-down direction, and a right-left regulating portion that is engaged with a third engaging portion included in the upper cover and regulates a position of the upper cover in the right-left direction.
Claims16
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a frame;
- a front cover that is fixed to a front surface of the frame;
- and
- an upper cover that is disposed on an upper surface of the frame and includes a plurality of engaging portions that is engaged with the front cover fixed to a front surface of the frame, wherein
- when a side on which the front cover is fixed is defined as a front side and an opposite side is defined as a back side, when the image forming apparatus is viewed from the front side, one side in a width direction orthogonal to a front-back direction is defined as a right side and the other side is defined as a left side, and when an upward direction in a vertical direction orthogonal to the front-back direction and a right-left direction is defined as an upper side and a downward direction is defined as a lower side,
- the front cover includes:
- a front-back regulating portion that is engaged with a first engaging portion included in the upper cover and abuts on a front side and a back side of the first engaging portion in the front-back direction to regulate a position of the upper cover in the front-back direction;
- an up-down regulating portion that is engaged with a second engaging portion included in the upper cover and abuts on an upper side and a lower side of the second engaging portion in an up-down direction to regulate a position of the upper cover in the up-down direction;
- and
- a right-left regulating portion that is engaged with a third engaging portion included in the upper cover and abuts on a left side and a right side of the third engaging portion in the right-left direction to regulate a position of the upper cover in the right-left direction, and
- the first engaging portion, the second engaging portion, and the third engaging portion included in the upper cover are respectively engaged with the front-back regulating portion, the up-down regulating portion, and the right-left regulating portion of the front cover fixed to the front side of the frame to regulate the position of the upper cover in the front-back direction, the up-down direction, and the right-left direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.