US Patent Issued to Ricoh on Oct. 21 for "Image forming apparatus having opening- and-closing cover with rotation shaft rotatable with lock levers" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,757, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus having opening- and-closing cover with rotation shaft rotatable with lock levers" was invented by Mitsutaka Nakamura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an opening-and-closing cover that is rotatable around a support shaft with respect to a body of the image forming apparatus. The opening-and-closing cover receives pressure in an opening direction from the body of the image forming apparatus when the opening-and-closing cover is closed and includes a rotation shaft rotatably held, a lock lever, and ...