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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2014
Oki Data Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiyuki Totsuka, Tokyo, JP;
Oki Data Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A media cassette housing system, which may be usable in an image formation apparatus such as a printer or copier, includes: a guide member configured to guide an insertion of a media cassette from an entrance into an installed position of a cassette housing unit and to guide a pulling out of the media cassette from the installed position to the entrance of the cassette housing unit; and a swingable member provided to the guide member and swingable in inserting and pulling directions of the media cassette. The swingable member includes a slide guide surface configured to come into sliding contact with a slide surface of the media cassette upon the insertion and pulling of the medium cassette.