US 11,988,987 B2
Housing structure and processing device equipped with housing structure
Keigo Shinoto, Kanagawa (JP); Kota Sato, Kanagawa (JP); and Taisuke Endo, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Dec. 6, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/543,694.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-135475 (JP), filed on Aug. 23, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0053735 A1, Feb. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. G03G 15/00 (2006.01); F16B 5/00 (2006.01); G03G 21/16 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 21/1604 (2013.01) [F16B 5/0024 (2013.01); G03G 15/6502 (2013.01); B65H 2402/10 (2013.01); B65H 2402/30 (2013.01); B65H 2402/443 (2013.01); G03G 21/1619 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A housing structure comprising:
an upper housing at an upper side of a device housing;
a lower housing at a lower side of the device housing; and
a positioner that positions the upper housing on the lower housing,
wherein one side surface of the device housing has an opening extending astride the lower housing and the upper housing when the upper housing is positioned on the lower housing,
wherein the positioner includes:
a reference positioning element that is provided toward any one of four corners of a connection area between the lower housing and the upper housing and that has a reference hole provided in one of or each of the lower housing and the upper housing and a positioning reference pin fitted in the reference hole;
an anti-rotation element that is provided toward another corner of the four corners excluding the corner near where the reference positioning element is provided and that has an anti-rotation pin provided at one of the lower housing and the upper housing and an anti-rotation hole that is provided in the other one of the lower housing and the upper housing, receives the anti-rotation pin, and suppresses rotation of the upper housing relative to the lower housing about the reference positioning element; and
position regulation elements that are respectively provided toward corners, of the four corners, located at opposite sides of the opening such that the one side surface having the opening is interposed between the corners, the position regulation elements individually having position regulation pins provided at one of the lower housing and the upper housing and position regulation holes that are provided in the other one of the lower housing and the upper housing, receive the position regulation pins, and positionally regulate the corners located at the opposite sides of the opening.