Abstract: A recording material processing apparatus includes an apparatus main body including a processing unit, a cover member provided so as to be opened and closed, opened to a predetermined place, and covers a predetermined place on the apparatus main body, a drag applying portion provided in the apparatus main body side and used to apply drag to the cover member opened and closed by a user, and a drag receiving member provided in cover member side, receives the drag from the drag applying portion when drag applying portion presses and the cover member is opened and closed, and is elastically deformed when a portion opposite to the drag applying portion in a state where the cover member is closed and/or a portion opposite to the drag applying portion when the cover member is opened up to the predetermined place is pressed by the drag applying portion.

Abstract: A recording material processing apparatus includes an apparatus main body including a processing unit, a cover member provided so as to be opened and closed, opened to a predetermined place, and covers a predetermined place on the apparatus main body, a drag applying portion provided in the apparatus main body side and used to apply drag to the cover member opened and closed by a user, and a drag receiving member provided in cover member side, receives the drag from the drag applying portion when drag applying portion presses and the cover member is opened and closed, and is elastically deformed when a portion opposite to the drag applying portion in a state where the cover member is closed and/or a portion opposite to the drag applying portion when the cover member is opened up to the predetermined place is pressed by the drag applying portion.

Abstract: An aspect of the invention is an opening-and-closing mechanism including: an opening-and-closing member that open-and-closes an body; a holding member rotatably coupled to the body; a sliding member disposed slidable to the holding member along a longitudinal-direction of the holding member, whose end portion is coupled to the opening-and-closing member, and sliding to the holding member in accompaniment with rotation of the opening-and-closing member; a braking member of an elastic material whose coefficient of friction with one of the sliding member or the holding member is larger than that between the other of the sliding member or the holding member and the one, the braking member sliding to the one in accompaniment with the sliding member sliding to the holding member to generate a braking-force by a frictional-force; and a pressing member disposed on the other, the braking member being mounted thereat, pressing the braking member against the one.

Abstract: A document transporting device includes: a document-accommodating-section; a transporting-mechanism; a feeding-member that feeds a document to the transporting-mechanism by rotating; a rotation-shaft that is driven to rotate and rotatably supports the feeding-member; an engaged-portion formed at an end portion of the feeding-member; a transmitting member that, by moving in a rotation-shaft-axial-direction, can be located at a transmitting-position where rotation of the rotation-shaft is transmitted to the feeding-member by an engaging-portion of the transmitting member being engaged with the engaged-portion, and at a releasing-position where engagement therebetween is released; a moving member provided on the rotation-shaft, that, upon relative rotating of the rotation-shaft and the transmitting member, moves the transmitting member to the transmitting-position and transmits the rotation of the rotation-shaft to the transmitting member; and a resistor that contacts with an outer peripheral surface of the tran

Abstract: An image forming device including: a platen glass on which a document is placed; a platen cover that presses and retains the document placed on the platen glass; an engagement portion provided at a side surface of the platen cover; a link component attached to a side surface of the device main body to be movable in a substantially vertical direction; a groove portion provided at an upper end portion of the link component, that engages with the engagement portion when the link component is moved substantially upward from a housed position thereof, whereby the platen cover opens or closes due to movement of the link component, and that does not engage with the engagement portion when the link component is at the housed position; and an operating portion provided to be positioned beneath the platen cover, for moving the link component in the substantially vertical direction, is provided.

Abstract: An aspect of the invention is an opening-and-closing mechanism including: an opening-and-closing member that open-and-closes an body; a holding member rotatably coupled to the body; a sliding member disposed slidable to the holding member along a longitudinal-direction of the holding member, whose end portion is coupled to the opening-and-closing member, and sliding to the holding member in accompaniment with rotation of the opening-and-closing member; a braking member of an elastic material whose coefficient of friction with one of the sliding member or the holding member is larger than that between the other of the sliding member or the holding member and the one, the braking member sliding to the one in accompaniment with the sliding member sliding to the holding member to generate a braking-force by a frictional-force; and a pressing member disposed on the other, the braking member being mounted thereat, pressing the braking member against the one.

Abstract: An image forming device including: a platen glass on which a document is placed; a platen cover that presses and retains the document placed on the platen glass; an engagement portion provided at a side surface of the platen cover; a link component attached to a side surface of the device main body to be movable in a substantially vertical direction; a groove portion provided at an upper end portion of the link component, that engages with the engagement portion when the link component is moved substantially upward from a housed position thereof, whereby the platen cover opens or closes due to movement of the link component, and that does not engage with the engagement portion when the link component is at the housed position; and an operating portion provided to be positioned beneath the platen cover, for moving the link component in the substantially vertical direction, is provided.

Abstract: A mirror holder support structure for a collapsible rearview mirror assembly on an automobile includes a mirror holder holding a mirror. The mirror holder has a spherical receptacle on a rear surface, with respect to the orientation of the motor vehicle, of the mirror holder. A support assembly which supports the mirror holder has a front casing member and a rear casing member. The support assembly further includes a pivot support having a spherical portion rotatably fitted in the spherical receptacle whereby the mirror holder is swingably supported on the support assembly, the pivot support being integrally formed on a rear surface of the rear casing member. The front and rear casing members are stiffened by a stiffener disposed in a chamber defined between the front and rear casing members. The pivot support and the front casing member are joined to each other by a fastener such as a screw on the axis of the pivot support.

Abstract: An automobile rearview mirror has a mirror housing having a spherical pivot and a mirror holder having a spherical cavity in which the spherical pivot is rotatably received. The mirror holder comprises a substantially flat panel and an attachment disposed on one side of the panel and defining the spherical cavity therein. The attachment has a gap defined therein radially outwardly of the spherical cavity. A mirror is supported on an opposite side of the panel. The attachment comprises a pair of semicylindrical socket members projecting from the one side of the panel. The semicylindrical socket members have respective inner arcuate walls and respective outer arcuate walls spaced radially outwardly from the inner arcuate walls, respectively. The inner arcuate walls define the spherical cavity therebetween, and the gap is defined between the inner arcuate walls and the outer arcuate walls.

Abstract: An inside rearview mirror assembly for use in the passenger compartment of a motor vehicle includes a base, a stay detachably mounted on the base, and a mirror unit supported on the stay. The base and the stay have respective joint surfaces intimately contacting each other, partly spherical interfitting projections and dimples formed respectively on front ends of the joint surfaces, and non-contact surfaces disposed forwardly of the projections and dimples and providing a gap between the stay and the base. When the mirror unit is subjected to an impact, the stay is angularly moved forwardly about the projections and dimples, and detached from the base.

Abstract: A rearview mirror assembly for an automobile includes a base adapted to be mounted on an automobile body and having a substantially vertical support shaft, a rotatable bracket mounted on the base and having a mirror and an electric motor, the rotatable bracket being angularly movable about the support shaft between a normal position and a rearwardly tilted position in response to energization of the motor, and a positioning mechanism for positioning the rotatable bracket in the normal position and the rearwardly tilted position one at a time. The positioning mechanism comprises a plurality of balls partly fitted in a plurality of recesses defined in the base and a plurality of semispherical recesses defined in the rotatable bracket. The recesses of the base have horizontal surfaces. When the rearview mirror assembly moves between the normal position and the rearwardly tilted position, the balls engage only the horizontal surfaces of the recesses of the base.