Patent ID: 7995220

Claim:
An image forming apparatus that forms an image on a recording paper fed from a paper cassette, the apparatus comprising: a housing that accommodates the paper cassette to be drawn toward the front side of the housing and has an opening in the side surface of the housing; and a lid body including a covering part that covers the opening of the side surface of the housing and a sliding part that slidably supports the covering part, the covering part having a member that projects toward the inner side than the opening, the covering part and the sliding part integrally separating from the opening in a first direction, and the covering part sliding along the sliding part in parallel to the opening and in a second direction, when the lid body opens the opening from a state in which the lid body covers the opening of the side surface of the housing, the first direction being different from the second direction, the covering part is allowed a sliding movement to the sliding part at the time the member is exposed from the opening; and further comprising: a stopper regulating a distance between the housing and the lid body, wherein the covering part is allowed the sliding movement of the sliding part when the stopper regulates the distance, and the distance is a distance of degree in which the member does not interfere with the side surface of the housing at the time of the sliding movement.