Sheet conveyor, sheet heater, liquid discharge apparatus, and printer that reduce sheet deformation via multiple supports
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsGenichiroh Kawamichi, Masato Ogawa
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Abstract
A sheet conveyor includes a conveyance belt configured to convey a sheet on a first surface of the conveyance belt in a conveyance direction, a suction device configured to suck the sheet onto the conveyance belt via the conveyance belt, and multiple supports between the conveyance belt and the suction device in a vertical direction, the multiple supports configured to support a second surface of the conveyance belt. A longitudinal direction of each of the multiple supports is parallel to a direction intersecting the conveyance direction, and the multiple supports are arrayed in the conveyance direction.
Claims11
A sheet conveyor comprising:
- a conveyance belt configured to convey a sheet on a first surface of the conveyance belt in a conveyance direction;
- a suction device configured to suck the sheet onto the conveyance belt;
- multiple supports between the conveyance belt and a suction chamber of the suction device in a vertical direction, the multiple supports configured to support a second surface of the conveyance belt;
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- a heater configured to heat the sheet conveyed by the conveyance belt, the heater comprising multiple irradiators arranged in a housing along the conveyance direction on an opposite side of the conveyance belt than the multiple supports,
- wherein a longitudinal direction of each of the multiple supports is parallel to a direction intersecting the conveyance direction,
- wherein the multiple supports are arrayed in the conveyance direction, and disposed in regions other than regions immediately below an irradiation region of the irradiators.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.