Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Hirofumi Sugane

Kazuyoshi Matsumoto

Tsuyoshi Abe

Tomoaki Arai

Sakae Ishikawa

Satoshi Ishihara

Junichi Murano

Gakushi Tanaka

Moku Naruishi

Hideyuki Goda

Yuki Satoh

Toshiyuki Mae

A packing unit includes a pallet, a structural base, and a fixing device. The pallet mounts an article thereon. The structural base has a fixed portion and is detachably attached to the article. The fixing device fixes the article to the pallet and includes an article fixing member slidably supported by the pallet. The article fixing member is movable between a fix position at which the article fixing member is engaged with the fixed portion of the structural base of the article to fix the article to the pallet and a release position at which the engagement of the article fixing member and the fixed portion is released.

Packing unit

An operation lever is configured to swing about a rotation axis. Regulating members that regulate the movement of the operation lever along the rotation axis thereof are integrally formed with a cover.

Image forming apparatus

A switch actuation device includes a first actuation portion driven by a first moving member and a second actuation portion driven by a second moving member. The switch actuation device further includes a first lever, a second lever, and an actuator. The first actuation portion contacts the second lever to swing the second lever toward the actuator connected to a switch when driven by the first moving member. The second actuation portion swings the first lever to cause the first lever to move the second lever closer to the actuator when driven by the second moving member. The actuator is driven by a combination of the swing of the second lever caused by the first moving member and the movement of the second lever caused by the second moving member so as to turn on the switch.

Switch actuation device, interlock mechanism, and image forming apparatus

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Machida, Japan

Hirofumi Sugane