Conveyance device and image forming apparatus incorporating same
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsTomoya Ohmura, Yuuki Nobuoka
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Abstract
A conveyance device includes a guide, a positioner, and a pusher. The guide extends in a longitudinal direction of an image bearer and is disposed upstream from a transfer position, at which an image is transferred from the image bearer to the recording medium, in a direction of conveyance of a recording medium to guide the recording medium. The positioner positions an end of the guide relative to the image bearer. The pusher contacts the guide at a position closer to a center of the guide than the end of the guide in the longitudinal direction, to push the guide toward the image bearer.
Claims17
A conveyance device comprising:
- a guide extending in a longitudinal direction of an image bearer and disposed upstream from a transfer position, at which an image is transferred from the image bearer to a recording medium, in a direction of conveyance of the recording medium to guide the recording medium;
- a positioner to position an end of the guide relative to the image bearer;
- a charge remover case directly supporting charge removers arranged in a perpendicular direction to the direction of conveyance of the recording medium;
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- a pusher having one end contacting the guide at a position closer to a center of the guide than the end of the guide in the longitudinal direction and another end contacting the charge remover case, to push the guide toward the image bearer.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a housing;
- an image bearer supported by the housing;
- a guide disposed upstream from a transfer position, at which an image is transferred from the image bearer to a recording medium, in a direction of conveyance of the recording medium to guide the recording medium, the guide having an end in a longitudinal direction of the guide;
- a charge remover case directly supporting charge removers arranged in a perpendicular direction to the direction of conveyance of the recording medium;
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- a corrector having one end contacting the guide at a position closer to a center of the guide than the end of the guide in the longitudinal direction and another end contacting the charge remover case, to correct warpage of the guide.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.