Patent ID: 8611784
Filing Date: 2013-12-17
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus comprising: an apparatus main body having a first surface and a second surface opposed in a first direction, and housing an image forming unit that outputs an image to a recording material; a housing body for housing an image reading unit that optically reads a document, the housing body disposed on an upper surface side of the apparatus main body, and a first end of the housing body rotatably connected to the apparatus main body near the second surface, a link member retaining the housing body, which has displaced to the fully open position, at the fully open position, a guide portion formed to extend in the first direction on an upper side of the housing body, guiding the second end of the link member, and including a stopper formed near the second surface; a suspended portion disposed on the guide portion near the second surface to reciprocally displace in the first direction, a tension spring, one end of which is connected to the link member and the other end of which is connected to the suspended portion, when the housing body displaces and rotates from the fully open position to the intermediate open position, the tension spring displaces in the free-length state towards the first surface, and when the housing body displaces and rotates from the intermediate open position to the closed position, the second end does not displace, and only the first end displaces towards the first surface, the tension spring shifts from the free-length state to the extended state.