Carrying apparatus and image forming apparatus
AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTatsuyuki Miura
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Abstract
The carrying apparatus includes a carrying device for carrying an object to be carried, along a carrying route having a corner part, a control device for temporarily stopping and holding the object carried by the carrying device, and a detection device for detecting the object positioned at a corner part of the carrying route, wherein if the detection device detects the object when the control device stops carrying the object, the control device controls the carrying device such that the carrying device carries the object until the detection device does not detect the object any more and the carrying device then stops carrying the object.
Claims1
A carrying apparatus comprising:
- a carrying device for carrying an object to be carried, along a carrying route having a corner part;
- a control device for temporarily stopping and holding the object carried by the carrying device;
- and
- a detection device for detecting the object positioned at a corner part of the carrying route, wherein
- if the detection device detects the object when the control device stops carrying the object, the control device controls the carrying device such that the carrying device carries the object until the detection device does not detect the object any more and the carrying device then stops carrying the object.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.