Title:
CARTRIDGE HOUSING DEVICE
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP3216675
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:
PURPOSE: To make the device thin by performing such a positional regulation that a distance between 1st and 2nd guides is smaller in the interior than the front side in the inserting direction of a cartridge under the state of housing no cartridge.
CONSTITUTION: The 1st guide 2 is energized to the diposing side of the 2nd guide 3 by a torsion coil spring 4, and under the nonloading state of the cartridge 1, the 1st guide 2 is positionally regulated of its inclining part 2e to be pressed against the 2nd guide 3. Now, the inclining part 2e of the 1st guide 2 is so settled that the distance between a guide surface 2a of the 1st guide 2 and the 2nd guide 3 under the nonloading state of the cartridge 1 is larger than a thickness (h) of the cartridge on the side of the cartridge discharge direction from a disposing part of the energizing part 2d, and is smaller than the cartridge thickness (h) on the side of the cartridge inserting direction. That is, the relationship between distances H1, H2 and H3 and the thickness (h) of the cartridge is settled to be H1>h, H2=h and H3<h.
Inventors:
Takao Terashima
Application Number:
JP32714893A
Publication Date:
October 09, 2001
Filing Date:
December 24, 1993
Export Citation:
Assignee:
株式会社リコー
International Classes:
G11B17/04; G11B15/675; G11B17/043; (IPC1-7): G11B17/04
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Toru Kabayama (1 person outside)