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US 10,703,594 B2Granted
Sheet conveyance apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMotohiro Furusawa, Atsushi Ogata
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Abstract
A sheet conveyance apparatus is configured to interlock a first transmission mechanism and a second transmission mechanism such that the second transmission mechanism switches a rotational driving direction of a reverse rotary member between a normal rotation direction and a reverse rotation direction with a delay with respect to the first transmission mechanism starting transmission of a rotational driving force such that a guide member pivots between a first pivot position and a second pivot position.
Claims11
A sheet conveyance apparatus comprising:
- a sheet discharge section constituting a sheet discharge portion configured to convey and discharge a sheet;
- a sheet inversion section comprising a reverse rotary member constituting a sheet inversion portion configured to invert and convey a sheet;
- a guide member configured to pivot to a first pivot position to guide the sheet to the sheet discharge portion and a second pivot position to guide the sheet to the sheet inversion portion;
- a rotation driving portion configured to generate a rotational driving force in only one rotation direction;
- a first transmission mechanism configured to transmit the rotational driving force of the rotation driving portion such that the guide member pivots between the first pivot position and the second pivot position;
- a second transmission mechanism configured to transmit the rotational driving force of the rotation driving portion to the reverse rotary member such that the reverse rotary member is rotationally driven in a normal rotation direction or a reverse rotation direction;
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- an interlocking mechanism configured to interlock the first transmission mechanism and the second transmission mechanism such that the second transmission mechanism switches a rotational driving direction of the reverse rotary member between the normal rotation direction and the reverse rotation direction with a delay with respect to the first transmission mechanism starting transmission of the rotational driving force such that the guide member pivots between the first pivot position and the second pivot position.
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