Conveyance apparatus and printing apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHisashi Taniguchi, Motoyuki Taguchi
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Abstract
A conveyance apparatus whose detection unit of a printing medium is unlikely to be damaged includes a first guide that is fixed to a main body; a second guide capable of moving to a position at which the second guide forms, together with the first guide, a conveyance path through which a printing medium is conveyed and a position at which the second guide opens the conveyance path; a first lever that is provided to the main body and which detects whether or not the printing medium exists in the conveyance path; and a second lever that shields light, wherein the first lever and the second lever can swing integrally or independently in accordance with the position of the second guide.
Claims11
A conveyance apparatus comprising:
- a first guide that is fixed to a main body;
- a second guide attachable to the main body so as to form, together with the first guide, a conveyance path through which a printing medium is conveyed, and removable from the main body so as to open the conveyance path;
- a first lever that is provided in the main body and which contacts the printing medium existing in the conveyance path;
- a second lever that selectively shields light;
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- a switching portion configured to move between a contact position of being in contact with the first lever in a case in which the second guide is removed from the main body and a non-contact position of not being in contact with the first lever in a case in which the second guide is attached to the main body,
- wherein the first lever and the second lever swing integrally in a case in which the switching portion is in the non-contact position and the first lever swings with respect to the second lever in a case in which the switching portion is in the contact position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.