Transport unit and image forming apparatus
AssigneeFUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
InventorsYoshiki Shimodaira, Hideki Kuge, Takayuki Ukawa, Masato Yamashita
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Abstract
A transport unit includes a transport device including a loop member that turns and that has no ends, the transport device transporting a recording medium with the recording medium attracted to a surface of the loop member; a guide unit that changes a transport direction of the recording medium fed from the transport device and that guides the recording medium in one of multiple transport directions; and a controller that controls the transport device, based on the transport direction that is changed by the guide unit such that attraction force of the transport device is changed.
Claims11
A transport unit comprising:
- a transport device including a loop member that turns and that has no ends, the transport device transporting a recording medium with the recording medium attracted to a surface of the loop member;
- a guide unit that changes a transport direction of the recording medium fed from the transport device and that guides the recording medium in one of multiple transport directions;
- and
- a controller that controls the transport device, based on the transport direction that is changed by the guide unit such that attraction force of the transport device is changed.
A transport unit comprising:
- transporting means for transporting a recording medium with the recording medium attracted to a surface of a loop member that turns and that has no ends;
- guiding means for changing a transport direction of the recording medium fed from the transporting means and for guiding the recording medium in one of multiple transport directions;
- and
- means for controlling the transporting means, based on the transport direction that is changed by the guiding means such that attraction force of the transporting means is changed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.