Image forming apparatus and opening/closing method of re-conveyance mechanism
AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsToshihiro Matsushima, Masataka Muratani
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Abstract
An ADU is turned around a first hole section that operates as fulcrum and opened by a first angle relative to the lateral side of an apparatus main body when dissolving a jam. The lateral side cover is temporarily taken away from a stationary side plate when maintenance the inside of a color copying machine. Then, a second engaging pin is put into a second hole section to engage the lateral side cover with the stationary side plate. The ADU is turned around the second hole section that operates as fulcrum and opened by a second angle greater than the first angle.
Claims8
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a re-conveyance mechanism arranged at the lateral side of an apparatus main body to reconvey a transfer medium to an image transfer position of the apparatus;
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- an opening/closing mechanism having a first fulcrum and a pair of first engaging pins and a pair of first hole sections to turn the re-conveyance mechanism around the first fulcrum by a first angle, a second fulcrum and a pair of second engaging pins and a pair of second hole sections for turning the re-conveyance mechanism around the second fulcrum by a second angle greater than the first angle, and a latch arranged to be engaged with and disengaged from one of the first engaging pins and prevent the re-conveyance mechanism from moving away from the apparatus main body in an engaged state;
- the re-conveyance mechanism being adapted to be moved between the first fulcrum and the second fulcrum by disengaging the latch from the first engaging pin and switching the re-conveyance mechanism from the state of being engaged with the apparatus main body by the first engaging pins to the state of being engaged with the apparatus main body by the second engaging pins.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a re-conveyance mechanism arranged at the lateral side of an apparatus main body to reconvey a transfer medium to an image transfer position of the apparatus;
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- an opening/closing mechanism having a first fulcrum to turn the re-conveyance mechanism by a first angle and a second fulcrum to turn the re-conveyance mechanism by a second angle that is greater than the first angle;
- the re-conveyance mechanism is moved between the first fulcrum and the second fulcrum, by sliding the re-conveyance mechanism to slide relative to the apparatus main body.
An opening/closing method of a re-conveyance mechanism arranged at a lateral side of an image forming apparatus to be able to be turn and to reconvey a transfer medium to a transfer position comprising:
- moving a re-conveyance mechanism between a first fulcrum and a second fulcrum by sliding the re-conveyance mechanism relative to an image forming apparatus main body;
- turning the re-conveyance mechanism around the first fulcrum relative to the image forming apparatus main body by a first angle;
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- turning the re-conveyance mechanism around the second fulcrum relative to the image forming apparatus main body by a second angle greater than the first angle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.