US 12,267,469 B2
Image forming apparatus including a double-structured bottle cover
Ryuta Kaneda, Kanagawa (JP); Hiroaki Nieda, Kanagawa (JP); and Naoki Matsuda, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Ryuta Kaneda, Kanagawa (JP); Hiroaki Nieda, Kanagawa (JP); and Naoki Matsuda, Kanagawa (JP)
Filed on Nov. 8, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/387,851.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-185203 (JP), filed on Nov. 18, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0171690 A1, May 23, 2024
Int. Cl. H04N 1/00 (2006.01); G06K 15/00 (2006.01); H05K 5/02 (2006.01); H05K 5/03 (2006.01); H05K 7/14 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 1/00519 (2013.01) [G06K 15/407 (2013.01); H04N 1/00543 (2013.01); H05K 5/0221 (2013.01); H05K 5/03 (2013.01); H05K 7/1405 (2013.01)] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
an apparatus main body;
a front cover to cover a front of the apparatus main body; and
a cover, disposed inside the apparatus main body and covered by the front cover when the front cover is closed, the cover including:
an inner cover, and
an exterior cover outside the inner cover in the front-back direction, the exterior cover fitted to the inner cover to form a single body with the inner cover, the single body being configured to openably close the apparatus main body in a front-back direction;
a hook on one of the inner cover and the exterior cover, another of the inner cover and the exterior cover having a hook hole to which the hook is engaged;
a spring in a space surrounded by the inner cover and the exterior cover, the spring pressing the inner cover and the exterior cover in a direction separating the inner cover away from the exterior cover;
a lock to lock the cover at a closed position,
wherein the cover includes a presser including:
a pressing portion pressed by the spring toward the inner cover; and
a projection passing through a hole of the inner cover and projecting from the inner cover, and
the projection in the cover at the closed position contacts the apparatus main body that presses the presser toward the exterior cover to separate the pressing portion from the inner cover.