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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 12, 2016
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Jun Sawamura, Kanagawa, JP;
Hideki Sato, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoshiro Konishi, Kanagawa, JP;
Yasuhiro Kato, Kanagawa, JP;
Takayuki Ukawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Masahiro Akatsuka, Kanagawa, JP;
Yusuke Sakurai, Kanagawa, JP;
FUJI XEROX CO., LTD., Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a cover that opens and closes an opening of an apparatus body, a unit removable from the apparatus body through the opening, a latch that is included in the unit and that is rotatable about a rotation fulcrum, the latch including a hook that is latched onto a latched portion of the apparatus body from downstream in a mounting direction of the unit to fix the unit onto the apparatus body and an operating portion that opposes the hook across the rotation fulcrum and that is operable through the opening, and a hindering portion that is included in the cover and that interferes, when the hook rotates in a separating direction in which the hook is separated from the latched portion in a state where the cover closes the opening, with the operating portion and hinders the hook from rotating in the separating direction.