CN104249944A - Image forming apparatus - Google Patents
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body, a door supported by the apparatus body turnably within a range of a first turning angle, a sheet stacking tray supported by the door turnably within a range of a second turning angle, and a bias member whose first end is fixed to the apparatus body and whose second end is fixed to the sheet stacking tray. The bias member pulls the sheet stacking tray to the apparatus body side by a bias force generated by the door pulling the bias member when the door is opened in the state in which the sheet stacking tray is opened and reduces a turning angle of the sheet stacking tray formed with the door to be smaller than the second turning angle at least when the door is turned by the first turning angle.
Description
Technical field
The present invention relates to a kind of imaging device being configured to be formed image on sheet material.
Background technology
Before this, known so a kind of imaging device, it comprises: be arranged on the bottom of imaging device and supply the feeding sheet materials part of sheet material; Be arranged on feeding sheet materials upper and on the sheet material supplied by feeding sheet materials part, form the imaging moiety of image; And sheet material discharge section, described sheet material discharge section is arranged on the top of imaging device, and the sheet material it being formed with image is discharged to described sheet material discharge section.Imaging device also comprises transfer path and the door (side cover) of the sheet material that is configured to move up, allow when described Men Qi is opened to expose transfer path, and arrange along a side surface of apparatus body, to make it possible to be easy to carry out jam treating process and handling labor.
And, door is provided with the user being configured to permission equipment manually to be supplied in the imaging device of manual supply portion of sheet material, the manual feed tray of manual supply portion is supported rotationally by door, and manual feed tray uses by rotating, so as can when user manually supplies sheet material stacking sheet material.Thus, if be opened in the state Xiamen that sheet material is stacked in manual feed tray, manual feed tray tilts further due to the rotation of door, then the position being stacked sheet material in manual feed tray may offset and sheet material may drop from manual feed tray.The user of this problems mandate imaging device is corrected in the stacked position of the sheet material in manual feed tray when manually supplying sheet material.This work bothers for user very much.
It is noted that manual supply portion is configured so that user can perform imaging operation by respective sheets being set on the sheet material with different size of the sheet material that manual feed tray stores in the analogue coming from feeding sheet materials box or apparatus body or dissimilar sheet material.
For this problem, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No.2012-13828 proposes a kind of structure, wherein, the body of imaging device is connected with manual feed tray by flexible wire or banded coupling components, and the coupled parts restriction of the slewing area of manual feed tray when to open, to suspend manual feed tray.
At this, even if under the state that is not only opened at door of banded coupling components described above but also under the pent state of door, also there is substantially invariable length and the slewing area of limit manual feed tray.But having such demand from ease for use aspect, that is, user wants the angle that manual feed tray turned under the pent state of door close to level attitude.But, if the slewing area of manual feed tray under the pent state of door increases, then the initial rotation corner connection nearly level attitude of manual feed tray when to open.When door is rotated and opens, manual feed tray is attempted along moving close to the direction of level attitude further from initial rotation angle.Therefore, there is such problem, that is, be difficult to the slewing area of manual feed tray under the pent state of door to set larger, drop from manual feed tray with sheet material under preventing the state that is opened at door.
Summary of the invention
According to an aspect of the present invention, imaging device comprises: apparatus body; Door, it is supported in the scope of the first pivot angle rotationally by apparatus body; Sheet-stacking dish, it is supported in the scope of the second pivot angle rotationally by door, and under the state opened relative to door stacking sheet material; And biasing member, the first end of described biasing member is fixed to apparatus body, and the second end of described biasing member is fixed to sheet-stacking dish, sheet-stacking dish is drawn to apparatus body side by the biasing force that biasing member pulls biasing member to produce by door when the state Xiamen be opened at sheet-stacking dish is opened, and at least when door turns over the first pivot angle biasing member the pivot angle that sheet-stacking dish and door are formed be reduced to be less than the second pivot angle.
According to a further aspect in the invention, imaging device comprises: apparatus body; Door, it can be supported by apparatus body rotationally centered by door pivot; Sheet-stacking dish, it can be supported and stacking sheet material by door rotationally to be positioned at centered by the dish rotating shaft above door pivot; Flexible coupling mechanism, one end of described flexible coupling mechanism is connected to apparatus body rotationally, and the other end of described flexible coupling mechanism is connected to sheet-stacking dish slidably; Slide mechanism, it supports the other end of coupling mechanism slidably; And biasing member, it is connected to the other end and the sheet-stacking dish of coupling mechanism; When door is opened under the state that sheet-stacking dish is opened relative to door, flexible coupling mechanism is stretched over its extreme length, and the other end of coupling mechanism to be supported under the state being stretched over its extreme length at coupling mechanism slidably by slide mechanism.
Explanation by the illustrative embodiments below with reference to accompanying drawing is become obvious by further feature of the present invention.
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Fig. 1 is the cutaway view of the chopping machine schematically shown according to an embodiment of the invention.
Fig. 2 is the block diagram of the structure of the control part of the chopping machine that described embodiment is shown.
Fig. 3 is the cutaway view that the state that the door of the chopping machine shown in Fig. 1 is opened is shown.
Fig. 4 is the cutaway view that the state that the manual dish of the chopping machine shown in Fig. 1 is opened is shown.
Fig. 5 illustrates that sheet material is stacked on the cutaway view of the state on the manual dish of chopping machine.
Fig. 6 illustrates that the state Xiamen be opened in the manual feed tray of stacking sheet material is opened the cutaway view of the about state of half.
Fig. 7 is the cutaway view that the state that the state Xiamen be opened in the manual feed tray of stacking sheet material is opened is shown.
Detailed description of the invention
Below with reference to Fig. 1 to 7, the imaging device according to an embodiment of the invention is described.Imaging device according to present embodiment of the present invention is provided with manual feed tray in the door that can expose transfer path, and described imaging device is such as duplicator, chopping machine, facsimile apparatus, multi-function printer etc.The electrophotographic printer (being referred to simply as below " chopping machine ") 100 of the toner image to form four kinds of colors is described imaging device of the present invention.
First, the schematic structure of the chopping machine 100 of present embodiment is described with reference to Fig. 1 to 3.Fig. 1 is the cutaway view of the chopping machine 100 schematically showing present embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 is the block diagram of the structure of the control part 50 of the chopping machine 100 that present embodiment is shown, Fig. 3 is the cutaway view that the state that the door 102 of the chopping machine 100 shown in Fig. 1 is opened is shown.
As shown in Figure 1, chopping machine 100 is included in the middle sheet material S of storage such as feeding sheet materials box and supplies the feeding sheet materials part 10 of sheet material S from feeding sheet materials box and make it possible to manually supply the manual supply portion 20 of sheet material S.Chopping machine 100 also comprises the imaging moiety 30 being configured to form image at the sheet material S supplied from feeding sheet materials part 10, the distributing roller of being discharged from equipment by sheet material S is to 40 and control the control part 50 of these parts.
Feeding sheet materials part 10 is arranged on the bottom of chopping machine 100 and comprises supply sheet material stacking portion (feeding sheet materials box) 11 and will be stacked on the feeding sheet materials roller of the sheet material S supply supplied in sheet material stacking portion 11 to (feeding sheet materials parts) 12.Note, the pickup part of being picked up out from supply sheet material stacking portion 11 by sheet material S is not shown in FIG.Manual supply portion 20 is arranged on (right-hand side in Fig. 1) on a sidepiece of chopping machine 100.Note, will be described in detail later manual supply portion 20.
Imaging moiety 30 is arranged on above feeding sheet materials part 10, comprises photosensitive drums 31a to 31d and by the exposing unit 32 of laser beam irradiation to photosensitive drums 31a to 31d, photosensitive drums forms the toner image of yellow, magenta, cyan and black.Imaging moiety 30 also comprises and toner image is transferred to the transfer section 33 on sheet material S and will be transferred to the fixation part 34 of the toner image of sheet material S.Distributing roller is arranged on the top (above imaging moiety 30) of chopping machine 100 to 40.
As shown in Figure 2, control part 50 comprises the CPU51 driving and control sheet material supply portion 10 etc. and the memory device 52 storing various program, various information etc.
As shown in Figure 3, chopping machine 100 also comprises the body 101 (being referred to simply as below ' printer body ' or ' apparatus body ') of chopping machine and can expose the side cover (being referred to simply as below ' door ') 102 (transmitting and guide the transfer path of sheet material) inside printer body 101.Feeding sheet materials part 10, imaging moiety 30 etc. are disposed in printer body 101.Manual supply portion 20 is arranged in door 102.Door 102 is arranged on (on right-hand side in figure 3) on the side of printer body 101, and can be supported by printer body 101 rotationally centered by the door pivot 103 arranged in the bottom of printer body 101.Note, the opening angle α (the first pivot angle) of the door 102 formed between door 102 and printer body 101 is limited by door pivot angle restricted part (the first limit rotation part) 102A, described door pivot angle restricted part is made up of the four joint connectors utilizing arm member 102A1 to construct, one end of described arm member be attached to printer body 101 rotationally and the other end of described arm member to be slidably attached to door 102 to the mode making user can carry out the scope of jam treating process, and the maximum opening angle α of door 102 is set in about 40 ° in the present embodiment.
Door 102 also opens the part that (exposure) transmits the transfer path 104 of sheet material S when being opened, and forms a part (see Fig. 1) for transfer path 104 when being closed.Note, transfer path 104 form from feeding sheet materials part 10 upwards towards distributing roller to 40 extend simultaneously through the transfer nip N of transfer section 33 and the vertical path of what is called of fixation part 34.Door 102 is provided with the two-sided transfer path 107 and 110 hereinafter will described.
Next, by the imaging operation (imaging undertaken by control part 50 controls) based on component Short Description chopping machine 100 described above.In response to the startup of imaging operation, exposing unit 32 correspond to from the image information signal of unshowned Personal Computer or the transmission of file reading section by laser beam irradiation on the surface of photosensitive drums 31a to 31d.Thus, the surface of the photosensitive drums 31a to 31d charged with predetermined polarity and electromotive force is exposed, and forms electrostatic latent image.When on the surface that electrostatic latent image is formed in photosensitive drums 31a to 31d, unshowned development part is by latent electrostatic image developing and be visualized as toner image.The corresponding toner image be visualized is applied and is transferred to intermediate transfer belt, and is sent to the transfer nip N of transfer section 33 by intermediate transfer belt.
Be parallel to toner image described above and form operation, sheet material S is supplied to transfer path 104 to 12 by feeding sheet materials roller while being separated one by one by the sheet material S be stacked in supply sheet material stacking portion 11.Note, when manually supplying, sheet material S supplies towards transfer path 104 by manual supply portion 20.Then, when sheet material S is fed into transfer path 104, with the toner image on intermediate transfer belt time-synchronously, sheet material S is sent to transfer nip N to 105 by alignment roller, and toner image is transferred on sheet material S by transfer section 33.After that, fixation unit 34 is by heat and pressure fixing toner images, and sheet material S discharges from equipment 40 by distributing roller.Be stacked on from the sheet material S of equipment discharge and be arranged on the discharge sheet-stacking part (discharge tray) 106 on chopping machine 100 top.
Note, when image is formed on sheet material S two sides (first and second surface), distributing roller to 40 contrarotations before sheet material S discharges from equipment, so that sheet material S is sent to two-sided transfer path 107.Then, sheet material S is supplied to transfer path 104 through two-sided transfer path 107 to 108 and 109 by two-sided transfer roller again, and imaging moiety 30 forms image on the second surface of reversion sheet material S.After this operation is identical with described above, so at this by the description thereof will be omitted.
Next, with reference to Fig. 4 to 7, manual supply portion 20 described above is described.First, the structure of manual supply portion 20 is described with reference to Fig. 4.Fig. 4 is the cutaway view that the state that the manual feed tray 21 of the chopping machine 100 shown in Fig. 1 is opened is shown.
As shown in Figure 4, manual supply portion 20 comprises: manual feed tray 21, and sheet material S is stacked in manual feed tray; The manual donor rollers supplied with the sheet material S that will be stacked in manual feed tray 21 is to (manual supply part) 22.Manual supply portion 20 also comprises connection unit (coupling mechanism) 23, manual feed tray 21 connects with printer body 101 by described connection unit, and the pivot angle that limit manual feed tray 21 and printer body 101 are formed, becomes to make pivot angle and is less than predetermined rotational angle.
Manual feed tray 21 is arranged on (right-hand side in Fig. 4) on the side of door 102, and is supported by door 102 rotationally centered by dish rotating shaft (rotating shaft part) 21a that can arrange above the door pivot 103 of the bottom of the side surface at door 102 and door 102.Manual feed tray 21 is also configured so that it can be stored in door 102, not stretch out the surface of shell (see Fig. 1) of door 102 when manual feed tray 21 is closed.Note, limited by dish pivot angle restricted part (the second limit rotation part) 20A at the opening angle β (the second pivot angle) of the manual dish 21 manually formed between dish 21 and the door 102 being in closed condition, described dish pivot angle restricted part is made up of the four joint connectors utilizing arm member 20A1 to construct, one end of described arm member is attached to door 102 rotationally, and the other end of described arm member is attached to manually dish 21 slidably, and manually the maximum opening angle β of dish 21 equals about 70 ° in the present embodiment.
Manual donor rollers is arranged along the manual feed path 110 be connected with manual supply portion 20 by transfer path 104 22, and by sheet material S stacking in manual feed tray 21 manually feed path 110 be sent to transfer path 104.Note, the pickup part of the sheet material S that not shown pickup is stacking in manual feed tray 21 in the diagram.
Connection unit 23 comprise flexibility (flexible) coupling part 24 and can bias voltage manual feed tray 21 can be lifted to the biased sections 25 of printer body 101 side (apparatus body side).The coupling part 24 of present embodiment is the coupling mechanism be made up of the first coupling components 24a and the second coupling components 24b, one end of described first coupling components is supported rotationally by printer body 101, and described second coupling components is connected to the other end of the first coupling components 24a.Biased sections 25 is made up of biasing spring (biasing member) 26 and slide mechanism 27, described biasing spring is connected to the other end of the second coupling components 24b, and described slide mechanism makes the other end of the second coupling components 24b slide with being basically parallel to the stack surface 21c of manual feed tray 21.Biasing spring 26 is coil springs.
One end of first coupling components 24a is supported on the top of the dish rotating shaft 21a of manual feed tray 21 rotationally by printer body 101.The other end of the first coupling components 24a is connected flexibly by coupling spindle 28 one end with the second coupling components 24b.One end (first end) of biasing spring 26 is connected to the other end of the second coupling components 24b, and the other end of biasing spring 26 is connected to the end 21b of manual feed tray 21.Then, biasing spring 26 by the second coupling components 24b bias voltage so that towards manual feed tray 21 end 21b layback move.Therefore, the coupling part 24 be made up of the first and second coupling components 24a and 24b is configured so that coupling part 24 can bend when door 102 and manual feed tray 21 are opened/closed or extend.
As mentioned above, the first end of biasing spring 26 is fixed to printer body 101 by coupling part 24, and the second end of biasing spring is fixed to manual feed tray 21, to make biasing spring 26 upwards pull manual feed tray 21 when door 102 is opened, as hereinafter by describing in detail.In other words, manual feed tray 21 is drawn to printer body side by the biasing force produced when the state Xiamen 102 be opened in manual feed tray 21 is opened by biasing spring 26, and at least when door 102 is opened to the first pivot angle α, the pivot angle that manual feed tray 21 and door 102 are formed is reduced to the pivot angle being less than the second pivot angle β.Therefore, the biasing force of biasing spring 26 is stronger, more tends towards stability in the position of manual feed tray 21.But, if biasing force is too strong, manual feed tray 21 may with open door 102 operations linkage takeoff.Thus, the biasing force of biasing spring 26 is set to that making the position of manual feed tray 21 can maintain sheet material S is fully loaded the state in manual feed tray 21.Such as, the power of about 30N using enough as the maximum load weight of the weight and sheet material S that upwards pull manual feed tray 21 total weight needed for power, and the biasing force of biasing spring 26 is arranged on 30N in the present embodiment.
The projection 27a that the other end that slide mechanism 27 is included in the second coupling components 24b is arranged and slide unit 27b, slide unit 27b is formed sliding tray 27c, and the manual feed tray 21c that projection 27a (other end of the second coupling components 24b) is basically parallel to manual feed tray 21 by sliding tray 27c slides.Although slide unit 27b is attached to manual feed tray 21, slide unit 27b can be integrally formed with manual feed tray 21.
Next, except Fig. 1, the operation (action) of the manual feed tray 21 when the state Xiamen 102 be opened in manual feed tray 21 is opened is described with reference to Fig. 5 to 7.Fig. 5 is the schematic cross sectional views of equipment, illustrate that sheet material S is stacked on the state in the manual feed tray 21 of chopping machine 100, Fig. 6 is the schematic cross sectional views of equipment, illustrate that the state Xiamen 102 be opened in the manual feed tray 21 of stacking sheet material S is opened the state of about half, and Fig. 7 is the schematic cross sectional views of equipment, the state that the state Xiamen 102 be opened in the manual feed tray 21 of stacking sheet material S is opened is shown.
As shown in Figure 1, under the state that manual feed tray 21 is stored in door 102, the first and second coupling components 24a and 24b bend at coupling spindle 28 place, and are configured in the storage not disturbing manual feed tray 21 near position each other.Biasing spring 26 shrinks and projection 27a (other end of the second coupling components 24b) is positioned at the front edge side of sliding tray 27c.
When from this state pull-out manual feed tray 21, the rotation of the second coupling components 24b and manual feed tray 21 is rotated in linkage centered by coupling spindle 28, and when the end on manual dish 21 side of arm member 20A1 of coiling pivot angle restricted part 20A slides into the slip restriction site on reveal as shown in Figure 5, the rotation of manual feed tray 21 is stopped.Biasing spring 26 also at this moment shrinks and projection 27a (other end of the second coupling components 24b) is positioned at the front edge of sliding tray 27c.Coupling part 24 remains in case of bending, because the dish rotating shaft 21a of the door pivot 103 of door 102 and manual feed tray 21 is positioned at same position with regard to the horizontal direction (horizontal direction in Fig. 4) of printer body 101.In other words, when manual feed tray 21 is just opened/closed, the slewing area of manual feed tray 21 does not have coupled unit 23 to limit and connection unit 23 does not disturb the rotation of manual feed tray 21.
In this state, the first and second coupling components 24a and 24b bend and coupling spindle 28 is located close to the manual feed tray 21c of manual feed tray 21.In other words, the first coupling components 24a to locate and the second coupling components 24b locates along manual feed tray 21 along printer body 101.Therefore, the first and second coupling components 24a and 24b do not disturb user stacking sheet material S in manual feed tray 21.
When door 102 rotates from this state along opening direction, the first and second coupling components 24a and 24b stretch when manual feed tray 21 is separated with printer body 101.This is because the dish rotating shaft 21a of manual feed tray 21 separates along the right-hand side (right-hand side in Fig. 4) of printer body 101 gradually relative to the door pivot 103 of door 102.Thus, the first and second coupling components 24a and 24b be bent substantially straighten gradually during door 102 is opened to its maximum opening angle, that is, extend to extreme length.When door 102 rotates further from the state that the first and second coupling components 24a and 24b straighten substantially, the other end (projection 27a) of the second coupling components 24b moves to dish rotating shaft 21a side by the biasing force of resisting biasing spring 26 along sliding tray 27c and pulls biasing spring 26.
When door 102 be opened as illustrated in fig. 6 about half (α/2) time, rotate together with the moving down of manual feed tray 21 and door 102 under the state that manual feed tray 21 is limited in specific angle (70 °) by dish pivot angle restricted part 20A.At this moment, the first and second coupling components 24a and 24b stretch from case of bending, and connection unit 23 is stretched over its extreme length.Until when connection unit 23 is stretched over its extreme length, opening the inclination of the dish pivot angle restricted part 20A limit manual feed tray 21 arranged in door 102, because the first and second coupling components 24a and 24b are configured to the opening operation not disturbing manual feed tray 21.Thus, the relative angle between manual feed tray 21 and ground is opened due to door 102 and reduces.Although this relative angle also depends on the relation between first and second coupling components 24a and 24b etc., the relative angle that manual feed tray 21 and ground are formed changes in the present embodiment in the scope of 20 ° to 5 °.
Note, although be maximized in the be opened length of about one half connection unit 23 of door 102 as illustrated in fig. 6 in the present embodiment, when connection unit 23 is stretched over its extreme length, the opening angle of door 102 is not limited to this.When connection unit 23 is stretched over its extreme length, the opening angle of door 102 can be set as any angle, as long as it is less than the angle when door 102 is opened to maximum.
As shown in Figure 7, when door 102 rotates further, because connection unit 23 has been stretched over its extreme length, the other end (projection 27a) of the second coupling components 24b moves to the cardinal extremity of sliding tray 27c (dish rotating shaft 21a side).Biasing spring 26 stretches due to this movement of the projection 27a of the second coupling components 24b.
When biasing spring 26 is stretched over its extreme length, namely, when connection unit 23 is stretched over its extreme length, by the biasing force (elastic force) of biasing spring 26, power acts in manual feed tray 21 along making manual feed tray 21 to coil the direction being lifted to door 102 side centered by rotating shaft 21a.Thus, manual feed tray 21 strongly rises, thus than original state (state in Fig. 7) more near door 102.When manual feed tray 21 rises, even if sheet material S stacking in manual feed tray 21 is offset also move to manual donor rollers to 22 sides.
As mentioned above, chopping machine 100 according to the present embodiment, because biasing spring 26 is arranged in connection unit 23, so manual feed tray 21 can by suitably lifting before door 102 is opened to finally.Thus, the sheet material S in manual feed tray 21 can not drop when door 102 is opened, even and if the stacked position of sheet material S offset from supply position, sheet material S also can turn back to supply position.Thus, the supply jam caused by the skew of the supply position of sheet material S can be prevented.
And, by arranging biasing spring 26 in connection unit 23, the vibrations acted on when user strongly opens door 102 in manual feed tray 21 can be cushioned.Therefore, reliably can prevent the sheet material S in manual feed tray 21 from dropping, and reduce the position skew occurring sheet material S.
By arranging biasing spring 26 in connection unit 23, the operation that also can make to perform when switching the moving direction of manual feed tray 21 operation of manual feed tray (when upwards the rotating from the state shown in Fig. 7 in the present embodiment) is carried out smoothly.Therefore, unnecessary sound and vibrations can be reduced.
The chopping machine 100 of present embodiment uses slide unit 27b and the first and second coupling components 24a and 24b as coupling part 24.Therefore, the first and second coupling components 24a and 24b such as will not disturb user stacking sheet material S in manual feed tray 21.
The other end (other end of connector group) that the chopping machine 100 of present embodiment is configured so that the second coupling components 24b is slidably and by along a direction bias voltage.Therefore, connector can be made a response flexibly and strictly can not be limited in the position of the center of turn of the length of connector, corresponding component etc.In other words, connector makes it possible to the restriction tackled flexibly about part design and particularity.
As mentioned above, no matter the chopping machine of present embodiment 100 is that the opening/closing operation of door 102 can the pivot angle of suitably limit manual feed tray 21, and can prevent dropping and position skew of sheet material S stacking in manual feed tray 21.
Although present embodiment of the present invention has been described, the present invention has been not limited to present embodiment described above.And the beneficial effect described in present embodiment of the present invention only enumerates the most suitable effect brought by the present invention, and effect of the present invention is not limited to the description in present embodiment of the present invention.
Such as, although by utilizing manual supply portion 20 to describe present embodiment as sheet-stacking part, the present invention has not been limited to this.When the discharge sheet-stacking dish (sheet-stacking dish) of stacking sheet material S (image has been formed on sheet material S and sheet material S discharges from equipment) be arranged on can the door inside exposure device body time, sheet-stacking part described above can be applied to the discharge sheet-stacking part having and discharge sheet-stacking dish.
And although by utilizing the first and second coupling components 24a and 24b to describe present embodiment as coupling part 24, the present invention has not been limited to this.The parts (such as sheet or thread-like member) such as formed by the flexible material of such as flexible synthetic resin (polypropylene etc.) and rubber can be used as coupling part.Even if use described parts also can obtain similar effect.
Although also by utilizing biasing spring 26 and slide mechanism 27, as biased sections 25, present embodiment is described, the present invention is not limited to this structure.Biased sections can be only made up of biasing spring (biasing member).
Although also by utilizing biasing spring 26, as biasing member 25, present embodiment is described, the present invention is not limited to this.Biasing member can construct by utilizing hydraulic damper, pneumatic shock absorber or elastomeric element.And, although door pivot angle restricted part 102A and dish pivot angle restricted part 20A is with four joint connector structures in embodiment described above, door and dish pivot angle restricted part can be configured to such as make the end on apparatus body side of arm member 102A and the end on reveal of arm member 20A slide.Pivot angle restricted part can also be constructed by any draw bail except four joint connectors.Door and dish pivot angle restricted part 102A and 20A can be made up of any mechanism except coupling mechanism, and such as thread-like member (wire rod of such as predetermined length), projection are fitted into the structure of elongated hole and utilize the mechanism of slewing area of gear and retainer limiting door rotating shaft 103 and dish rotating shaft 21a.
Also by utilizing electrophotographic image forming process, as the imaging moiety forming image on sheet material S, present embodiment is described, but the present invention is not limited to this structure.Such as, imaging moiety sheet material S being formed image can utilize the ink-jet imaging process by forming image at sheet material S from nozzle exudate ink.
Although reference example embodiment describes the present invention, it should be understood that the present invention is not limited to disclosed illustrative embodiments.The scope of following claim will be endowed the most wide in range explanation, to comprise all corrections and equivalent structure and function.
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1. an imaging device, comprising:
Apparatus body;
Door, it can be supported in the scope of the first pivot angle rotationally by described apparatus body;
Sheet-stacking dish, it can be supported in the scope of the second pivot angle rotationally by described door, and under the state opened relative to door stacking sheet material; And
Biasing member, the first end of described biasing member is fixed to described apparatus body, and the second end of described biasing member is fixed to described sheet-stacking dish, described sheet-stacking dish moves to apparatus body layback by the biasing force that described biasing member pulls described biasing member to produce by door when described door is opened under the state be opened at described sheet-stacking dish, and at least when door turns over the first pivot angle described biasing member the pivot angle that described sheet-stacking dish and described door are formed be reduced to be less than the second pivot angle.
2. imaging device according to claim 1, also comprise coupling mechanism, described coupling mechanism comprises the second connector of the first connector being attached to described apparatus body and the first end being attached to described biasing member, described apparatus body is connected with described sheet-stacking dish by described biasing member by described coupling mechanism, and is flexibility when described door and described sheet-stacking dish are opened/closed and can stretch.
3. imaging device according to claim 2, wherein, during under the state that described sheet-stacking dish is opened, described door rotation reaches the first pivot angle, described coupling mechanism is stretched over its extreme length.
4. imaging device according to claim 3, also comprises slide mechanism, and described slide mechanism is configured to the end on the side connected with described biasing member of moving the second connector along the stack surface of described sheet-stacking dish.
5. imaging device according to claim 4, wherein, under the state that described coupling mechanism is stretched over its extreme length, described biasing member is pulled by the described end of described second connector, and slides along described slide mechanism in response to the opening operation of described door in the described end of described second connector.
6. imaging device according to claim 5, wherein, described biasing member comprises biasing spring.
7. imaging device according to claim 6, also comprises manual supply portion, and the side that described manual supply portion is arranged on described apparatus body on the surface and can by feeding sheet materials in described apparatus body;
Wherein, described sheet-stacking dish is arranged on the manual feed tray in described manual supply portion, and stacking to be supplied to the sheet material in described apparatus body.
8. imaging device according to claim 7, also comprises transfer path, and described transfer path guides in described apparatus body by the sheet material transmitted;
Wherein, described transfer path is exposed by opening door.
9. imaging device according to claim 1, also comprises the first limit rotation part, and the slewing area of door is limited in described first pivot angle by this first limit rotation part; With
Second limit rotation part, the slewing area of described sheet-stacking dish is restricted to the second pivot angle by this second limit rotation part.
10. an imaging device, comprising:
Apparatus body;
Door, it can be supported by described apparatus body rotationally centered by door pivot;
Sheet-stacking dish, it can be supported by described door rotationally centered by the dish rotating shaft of locating above door pivot, and stacking sheet material;
Flexible coupling mechanism, one end of described flexible coupling mechanism can be connected to described apparatus body rotationally, and the other end of described flexible coupling mechanism can be connected to described sheet-stacking dish slidably;
Slide mechanism, it can be slidably supported the other end of described flexible coupling mechanism; And
Biasing member, it is connected to the other end of described flexible coupling mechanism and described sheet-stacking dish;
When under the state be opened relative to described door at described sheet-stacking dish, described door is opened, described flexible coupling mechanism is stretched over its extreme length, and the other end of described flexible coupling mechanism can slide supported to the state being stretched over its extreme length at described flexible coupling mechanism by described slide mechanism under.
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