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US 10,017,340 B2Granted
Sheet conveyance apparatus and sheet conveyance method
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsTadashi Matsuoka, Yasuo Niikura, Yousuke Edo, Satoru Takano, Yasunori Hino, Atsunori Yoshida, Ryo Kanno, Hikaru Fukasawa
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Abstract
A sheet conveyance apparatus includes: a placement part configured such that stacked sheets are disposed on the placement part; a housing including an open/close part and accommodating the placement part, at least a portion of the open/close part being configured to be opened and closed; and a suction unit connected with the housing, and configured to draw gas from an interior of the housing.
Claims16
A sheet conveyance apparatus comprising:
- a placement part configured such that stacked sheets are disposed on the placement part;
- a housing including an exterior wall with a first opening and means for opening and closing, the housing accommodating the placement part, at least a portion of the means for opening and closing being configured to be opened and closed;
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- a suction unit connected to the first opening, and configured to draw gas in an interior of the housing from the first opening.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.