An image reading apparatus includes a main body, a cover, a reading unit, a cable, and a shield member. The cover pivots with respect to the main body and move between a first closed position and a first open position. The reading unit pivots with respect to the main body and reads an image of a sheet conveyed in the conveyance path. The cable bridges between the main body and the reading unit and configured to transmit an image signal from the reading unit. The cable includes an exposed portion located between the main body and the reading unit and exposed to an outside of the main body and the reading unit when the cover is located in the first open position. The shield member has conductivity, grounded, and disposed to cover the exposed portion of the cable.

There is provided an image forming apparatus including a scanner unit configured to be openable on an apparatus front side with respect to a printer unit due to a first hinge portion on an apparatus rear side, a cover to cover a feed port configured to be openable due to a second hinge portion on the apparatus front side of the feed port, wherein a rotation axis of the first hinge portion is positioned on the apparatus rear side of a rotation axis of the second hinge portion in an apparatus depth direction. Interlocking with an operation to open the scanner unit, the cover moves while a portion thereof is in contact with a surface of the paper feed tray or the sheet placed thereon to open the cover in an interlocking manner.

An image reading apparatus includes a platen, a copyholder pressed against a reading surface of a document placed on the platen, and a placing part movably provided, on which a non-pressed portion of the document that is not pressed by the copyholder is placed.

An image reading device includes a first image reading unit to read an image of a medium placed on a placement portion, a cover unit, and a hinge portion. The cover unit is rotatable in a first direction from a first position to cover the placement portion toward a second position and in a second direction from the second position toward the first position. The hinge portion has a first opening provided on a placement portion side, a second opening provided on a cover unit side, a first space in which a first cable extending from the first opening toward the second opening is disposed, and a second space that is adjacent to the first space via a partition portion and in which a second cable extending from the first opening toward the second opening is disposed. The first space extends in the first direction near the first opening.

A print device includes a housing, a lid body, a display device, and a mounting portion. An opening is formed in an upper portion of the housing. The lid body opens and closes the opening of the housing by a second end portion side of the lid body pivoting around a predetermined rotation axis provided at a first end portion of the lid body. The mounting portion is provided on an upper portion of the lid body when the opening is closed. The display device can be attached to and detached from the mounting portion along a predetermined attachment/detachment direction with respect to the lid body. The attachment/detachment direction is orthogonal to an extending direction of a tangent line. The tangent line is tangential to a circumferential direction of the rotation axis at a position of the second end portion of the lid body.

A damping hinge includes a first joining part; a revolving part pivotably connected to the first joining part and being capable of revolving among a first position, a second position and a third position; a supporting module arranged within the first joining part for pressing the revolving part to keep the revolving part and the first joining part staying in a relative position; a second joining part fastened to the revolving part for connecting the upper cover; a first enforcement frame arranged on the first joining part; and a damping module including a damper holder pivotably connected to the second joining part, a damper consisting of a damper core fastened on the damper holder as a fixed end and an actuating portion as a free end being able to move up and down, a damper spring connected between the second joining part and the damper holder.

An image reading device includes a turning unit and a reading unit having a reader. The reader reads an image on a sheet. The turning unit can turn with respect to the reading unit. The turning unit includes a communication unit and a storage portion. The communication unit receives data from outside the image reading device by wirelessly communication and includes a communication main unit detachably mounted within the turning unit and a communication cable that transfers data received by the communication main unit. The storage portion stores the communication cable.

A reading apparatus includes a cover configured to pivot to an open position and a closed position, a lock mechanism configured to restrict the cover in the closed position from pivoting to the open position, and a reading unit provided in the cover or in a member facing the cover in the closed position, and configured to read a medium when the cover is in the closed position. The cover includes a protruding portion. A latch face configured to come into contact with a face of the protruding portion facing toward one direction along a first axis when the cover is in a closed position, the first axis being orthogonal to a pivoting shaft of the cover. The latch face is configured to move in the other direction along the first axis when the latch moves from a lock release position to a lock position.

An image reading apparatus includes a sheet conveyance portion, an image reading portion configured to read an image on the sheet conveyed by the sheet conveyance portion, and an opening/closing device configured to openably and closeably support the sheet conveyance portion with respect to the image reading portion. The opening/closing device includes a first opening/closing unit and a second opening/closing unit. The first opening/closing unit is provided at, in a movement direction of the movable portion, a position in a first distance from a reading position. The second opening/closing unit is provided at a position in a second distance longer than the first distance from the reading position in the movement direction. The second opening/closing unit includes an attenuation device configured to attenuate vibration energy of the sheet conveyance portion, and the first opening/closing unit does not include an attenuation device.

An image forming apparatus includes a first casing, a pivotable second casing, a pivotable document cover, and a lock mechanism including a movable hook and a fixed hook. The second casing has a document support surface. When the second casing is at a first position in which the second casing covers an upper surface of the first casing, and the document cover is at a fourth position in which the document cover reveals the document support surface, the movable hook is engaged with the fixed hook. When the second casing is at the first position, and the document cover is at a third position in which the document cover covers the document support surface, the movable hook is disengaged from the fixed hook.