Patent ID: 8634743
Filing Date: 2014-01-21
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus comprising: an image forming apparatus main unit; an opening that is formed in an outer face of the image forming apparatus main unit; an attached/detached portion that is formed inside the image forming apparatus main unit, and that is connected to the opening; an opening/closing member that is supported by a support shaft, and that is supported to be rotatable between an opened position where the opening is exposed to an outside and a normal position where the opening is closed from the outside, in which a restricted portion is disposed in a face on a side of the image forming apparatus main unit, the restricted portion comprising a projecting portion; a detachable body main unit that is attached and detached by being inserted and extracted between an attached position where the unit is attached to the attached/detached portion and a separated position where the unit is drawn out from the attached/detached portion to an outside of the image forming apparatus main unit; and a restricting portion that is disposed downstream in a detachable body main unit drawing direction that is directed from the attached position of the detachable body main unit to the separated position, and that is contactable with the restricted portion, the restricting portion comprising a recess configured to receive the projecting portion, wherein, in a case where the opening/closing member is rotationally moved from the opened position toward the normal position, when the detachable body main unit is at a restricted position that is between the attached position and the separated position, the restricting portion is contacted with the restricted portion so as to be moved into a position between the opening/closing member and the detachable body main unit, so as to restrict a rotational movement of the opening/closing member toward the normal position, and, when the detachable body main unit is at the attached position, the restricting portion and the restricted portion that is being rotated are separated from each other to enable the opening/closing member to be rotationally moved to the normal position, and, in a case where the opening/closing member is moved to the normal position, the restricted portion is housed in a space between the detachable body main unit and the opening/closing member.