Image forming apparatus with opening and closing member and reaction force generating mechanism
AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
InventorAkira Ueshima
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes an opening and closing member that is movably supported between an opening position at which an inner portion of a main body of the apparatus is opened and a closing position at which the inner portion of the main body of the apparatus is closed, an engaged portion that is provided in the main body of the apparatus, an engaging member that is provided in the opening and closing member and is engaged to the engaged portion, and a reaction force generating mechanism that is provided in the opening and closing member, and urges the opening and closing member toward the opening position when the opening and closing member moves from the opening position to the closing position.
Claims7
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an opening and closing member that is movably supported between an open position at which an inner portion of a main body of the apparatus is opened and a closed position at which the inner portion of the main body of the apparatus is closed;
- an engaged portion that is provided in the main body of the apparatus;
- an engaging member that is provided with the opening and closing member and is engaged to the engaged portion;
- a reaction force generating mechanism that is provided with the opening and closing member, and urges the opening and closing member toward the open position when the opening and closing member moves from the open position to the closed position;
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- an image forming part that is provided in the main body of the apparatus,
- wherein wherever the opening and closing member is positioned between the open position and the closed position, an internal reaction force, which acts to urge the opening and closing member toward the open position and includes a reaction force generated by the image forming part and a reaction force generated by the reaction force generating mechanism, is larger than a drawing force, which acts to urge the opening and closing member toward the closed position and is based on an engaging force generated when the engaging member is fitted into the engaged portion.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a main body that includes an engaged portion and an opening;
- an opening and closing member that includes an engaging member and a reaction force generating portion, and is supported to be movable between an open position at which an inner portion of the main body is exposed to an outside of the main body through the opening and a closed position at which the opening and closing member closes the opening;
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- an image forming part that is provided in the main body of the apparatus, wherein:
- the reaction force generating portion urges the opening and closing member toward the open position when the opening and closing member is moved from the open position to the closed position, and
- wherever the opening and closing member is positioned between the open position and the closed position, an internal reaction force, which acts to urge the opening and closing member toward the open position and includes a reaction force generated by the image forming part and a reaction force generated by the reaction force generating portion, is larger than a drawing force, which acts to urge the opening and closing member toward the closed position and is based on an engaging force generated when the engaging member is fitted into the engaged portion.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an opening and closing member that is movably supported between an open position at which an inner portion of a main body of the apparatus is opened and a closed position at which the inner portion of the main body of the apparatus is closed;
- an engaged portion that is provided in the main body of the apparatus;
- an engaging member that is provided with the opening and closing member and is engaged to the engaged portion;
- a reaction force generating mechanism that is provided with the opening and closing member, and urges the opening and closing member toward the open position when the opening and closing member moves from the open position to the closed position, wherein:
- one end of the opening and closing member is rotatably supported around a rotation center, and
- the reaction force generating mechanism urges the opening and closing member at a position that is farther from the rotation center than a position of the engaging member from the rotation center.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.