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Granted Patent B2
US 11,895,277 · App. 17/186,595 · Granted Feb 6, 2024

Opening/closing cover attachment structure which couples opening/closing cover to cover attaching body in a turnable manner

Inventor: Kuniaki Araishi (Osaka, JP)
Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
H04N1/00546H05K5/0226H05K5/03
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Patent No.
US 11,895,277
App. No.
17/186,595
Granted
Feb 6, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

An opening/closing cover attachment structure couples an edge of an opening/closing cover to a cover attaching body in a turnable manner. The opening/closing cover attachment structure includes a first hinge, a second hinge and a holding part. The first hinge and the second hinge are disposed on the edge of the opening/closing cover via an interval. The holding part is disposed outside between the first hinge and the second hinge, and capable of holding the opening/closing cover in a closing state and releasing the holding. Hinge axes of the first hinge and the second hinge are sifted each other in a front-and-rear direction of the opening/closing cover, such that it becomes possible to reduce a level difference between contact end portions of the opening/closing cover in the closing state and the cover attaching body.

Claims (31)

1. An opening/closing cover attachment structure which couples an edge of an opening/closing cover to a cover attaching body in a turnable manner, the opening/closing cover attachment structure comprising:

a first hinge and a second hinge disposed on the edge of the opening/closing cover via an interval; and

a holding part disposed outside between the first hinge and the second hinge, and capable of holding the opening/closing cover in a closing state and releasing the holding, wherein

the first hinge includes a hinge pin provided in one of the cover attaching body and the edge of the opening/closing cover and a pin insertion hole provided in the other of the cover attaching body and the edge of the opening/closing cover,

the hinge pin has an insertion portion inserted into the pin insertion hole and a fitting portion inserted into a pin fitting hole provided in the one of the cover attaching body and the edge of the opening/closing cover,

the fitting portion and the pin fitting hole are formed to have a non-circular cross section, and the insertion portion and the fitting portion are eccentrically disposed,

the first hinge is switched between a first state where the fitting portion is inserted into the pin fitting hole in a first posture and a second state where the fitting portion is inserted into the pin fitting hole in a second posture where the hinge pin is turned by a predetermined angle in a circumferential direction from the first posture,

the insertion portion in the second state is shifted in a front-and-rear direction of the opening/closing cover with respect to the insertion portion in the first state,

by manually switching between the first state and the second state according to a level difference between contact end portions of the opening/closing cover in the closing state and the cover attaching body, hinge axes of the first and second hinges are shifted in a front-and-rear direction of the opening/closing cover so that the level difference can be reduced,

the second hinge includes a hinge pin provided in one of the edge of the opening/closing cover and the cover attaching body and a pin insertion hole provided in the other of the edge of the opening/closing cover and the cover attaching body,

one of the hinge pin and the pin insertion hole is provided in a supporting bracket provided in the opening/closing cover,

a spacer is provided so as to be interposed or not to be interposed between the supporting bracket and a supporting bracket attachment face formed in the opening/closing cover,

it is configured to be switched into a spacer interposition state where the spacer is interposed between the supporting bracket and the supporting bracket attachment face and a spacer non-interposition state where the spacer is not interposed between the supporting bracket and the supporting bracket attachment face,

the opening/closing cover in the spacer interposition state is shifted in the front-and-rear direction of the opening/closing cover with respect to the opening/closing cover in the spacer non-interposition state, and

by manually switching between the spacer interposition state and the spacer non-interposition state according to the level difference, the hinge axes of the first and second hinges are shifted in the front-and-rear direction of the opening/closing cover so that the level difference can be reduced.

2. The opening/closing cover attachment structure according to claim 1 , wherein

the predetermined angle is 180 degrees.

3. The opening/closing cover attachment structure according to claim 1 , wherein

the fitting portion and the pin fitting hole are formed to have a rectangular cross section long in the front-and-rear direction of the opening/closing cover.

4. The opening/closing cover attachment structure according to claim 1 , wherein

the spacer is supported in a turnable manner between the spacer interposition state and the spacer non-interposition state.

5. The opening/closing cover attachment structure according to claim 1 , wherein

the edge of the opening/closing cover is a side edge of the opening/closing cover,

the first hinge and the second hinge are disposed via an interval in an upper-and-lower direction, and

the holding part is disposed on a lateral side between the first hinge and the second hinge.

6. The opening/closing cover attachment structure according to claim 5 , wherein

the first hinge is provided between an upper portion of the side edge of the opening/closing cover and the cover attaching body,

the second hinge is provided between a middle portion in the upper-and-lower direction of the side edge of the opening/closing body and the cover attaching body, and

a lower end portion of the opening/closing cover is in a free state where it is not fixed to the cover attaching body.

7. The opening/closing cover attachment structure according to claim 1 , wherein

the holding part includes a magnet and a magnet attaching part which are distributed in the opening/closing cover and the cover attaching body.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 26, 2021
From: ARAISHI, KUNIAKI
To: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
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Priority Claims (1)
JP 2020-032602 · Feb 28, 2020 · national
Continuity (1)
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