Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Cover opening/closing structure and image forming apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 盖开/关结构和图像形成装置
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Application No.: US12497421Application Date: 2009-07-02
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Publication No.: US08331826B2Publication Date: 2012-12-11
- Inventor: Kazuyoshi Minaminaka
- Applicant: Kazuyoshi Minaminaka
- Applicant Address: JP Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken
- Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken
- Agency: Baker Botts L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2008-175962 20080704; JP2009-127595 20090527
- Main IPC: G03G15/00
- IPC: G03G15/00 ; G03G21/00

Abstract:
In an image forming apparatus, a cover opening/closing structure includes a first cover and a second cover which are rotatably attached to a main body. A rotation locus of an end part of the second cover interferes with a rotation locus of an end part of the first cover. At least one of the first cover and the second cover includes an operating surface which, when the second cover is rotated from a closed position toward an open position in a half-opened state of the first cover in which the end part of the first cover interferes with the rotation locus of the end part of the second cover, receives a pressing force in a direction causing the first cover to become either one of an open position and a closed position by the end part of the first cover contacting the end part of the second cover.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100003050A1 COVER OPENING/CLOSING STRUCTURE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2010-01-07
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