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US 12,351,412 B2Granted
Conveyance apparatus and printing apparatus
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsToshihiro Nakagaki, Kohei Chike
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Abstract
A conveyance apparatus includes a conveyor and processing circuitry. The conveyor conveys a sheet. The processing circuitry controls conveyance of the sheet by the conveyor and switching a direction in which the conveyor conveys the sheet to a direction opposite to a direction in which the sheet is ejected, after the conveyance of the sheet is stopped under a predetermined condition.
Claims10
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming device configured to form an image on a sheet;
- a first conveyor on a first side of the image forming device and configured to convey the sheet in a first direction towards the image forming device;
- a second conveyor on a second side of the image forming device and configured to convey the sheet in the first direction away the image forming device and convey the sheet in a second direction opposite the first direction;
- processing circuitry configured to:
- control conveyance of the sheet by the first and second conveyors, and
- control switching the second conveyor to convey the sheet in the second direction, after the conveyance of the sheet is stopped under a predetermined condition;
- a storage configured to accommodate the sheet conveyed directly from the first conveyor in the first direction and accommodate the sheet conveyed directly from the second conveyor in the second direction;
- a guide configured to guide the sheet conveyed from the secondconveyor to the storage,
- wherein the guide overlaps the image forming device and the second conveyor in a third direction perpendicular to the first and second directions.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.