US 12,282,282 B2
Image forming system with reduced risk of disconnection of a cable connecting an operation unit and an image forming apparatus
Yusaku Makino, Chiba (JP); and Hirohisa Sawada, Saitama (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jul. 28, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/361,534.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-123401 (JP), filed on Aug. 2, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0045365 A1, Feb. 8, 2024
Int. Cl. G03G 15/00 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 15/80 (2013.01) 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image forming system comprising:
an image forming unit configured to form an image on a recording medium;
a housing configured to house the image forming unit and having a top surface;
an operation unit configured to be movably placed on the top surface and receive a setting of an image forming condition for the recording medium;
a cable configured to connect the housing and the operation unit to each other to operate the operation unit; and
a reinforcing member disposed along the cable in a longitudinal direction and having a first fixing part fixed to the housing and a second fixing part fixed to the operation unit,
wherein the cable has a third fixing part fixed to the housing and a fourth fixing part fixed to the operation unit;
wherein a distance between the first fixing part and the second fixing part is shorter than a distance between the third fixing part and the fourth fixing part, and
wherein the first fixing part is fixed to the housing such that a weak-axis, where a second moment of area of a cross section of the reinforcing member in the first fixing part is minimum, intersects with the top surface.