US 12,235,604 B2
Image forming apparatus with a door on a body and cover inside the door
Nobuo Kuwabara, Kanagawa (JP); and Hiroaki Takagi, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Nobuo Kuwabara, Kanagawa (JP); and Hiroaki Takagi, Kanagawa (JP)
Filed on Oct. 5, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/376,850.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-162591 (JP), filed on Oct. 7, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0118654 A1, Apr. 11, 2024
Int. Cl. G03G 21/16 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 21/1633 (2013.01) [G03G 21/1647 (2013.01); G03G 21/168 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
a body having an opening;
a door on the body, the door covering the opening at a first closed position;
a unit detachably attached to the body from the opening and disposed at a mounting position inside the body;
a cover inside the door and rotatable between:
a second closed position in which the cover covers the unit at the mounting position; and
an opening position in which the cover forms an angle of 90 degrees or more with the body, in an opening direction;
a spring applying a force to the cover in the opening direction; and
a lock to lock the cover at the second closed position,
wherein the cover displaced from the second closed position in the opening direction restricts a movement of the door to the first closed position,
the image forming apparatus further comprising:
a lock lever movable between:
a lock position at which the lock lever locks the unit at the mounting position; and
an unlock position at which the lock lever unlock the unit,
wherein the cover includes a restrictor on a back face of the cover, and
the restrictor contacts the lock lever at the unlock position to restrict the movement of the cover to the second closed position.