Patent ID: 7069622
Filing Date: 2006-07-04
Classification: B41J,E05D,E05Y,H04N,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A hinge with which an open/closed body is swingably joined to a main body, the hinge comprising: a tubular base part being attached to one of the main body and the open/closed body; a rotation body being attached to another of the main body and the open/closed body, and rotationally supported by opposite side wall end parts of said base part, said rotation body having a cam part; a wedge body being reciprocatably housed in said base part and having a slope for coming in sliding contact with the cam part according to a rotation of said rotation body; an elastic member being housed in said base part for urging said wedge body toward said rotation body; a sliding contact face being formed on an inner wall of said base part in a side of said wedge body with respect to a rotation axis of said rotation body, the sliding contact face having a concave surface defined by a parallel move path of a line almost parallel with the rotation axis; and a sliding contact part being formed in said rotation body for coming in sliding contact with said sliding contact face when said rotation body rotates.