Patent ID: 6463231
Filing Date: 2002-10-08
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
A printer device, which includes a paper conveyer path and image formation means for forming an image on a paper conveyed along said paper conveyer path, and which is dividable into an upper body and a lower body, said printer device comprising:a body linking mechanism for opening said upper body with a predetermined interval between said lower body, and for connecting said upper body and said lower body, wherein said body linking mechanism includes: a pair of first arms each of which has a rotational fulcrum at a central section of either one side surface of said lower body; a pair of second arms each of which has a rotational fulcrum at an outer section of either one side surface of said lower body; and a pair of link members which are arranged on respective side surfaces of said upper body, and rotatively and oppositely connected to corresponding ones of said respective first and second arms, wherein a posture of said upper body with respect to said lower body is retained, by said body linking mechanism, approximately the same as a posture of said upper body which is closed, when opening said upper body upward with respect to said lower body, and said upper body is shifted in directions except in a forward direction.