Apparatus for transporting a sheet into a reading position
AssigneeMinolta Co., Ltd.
InventorsHiroshi Nishikawa, Noritoshi Maruchi, Tohru Murakami
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Abstract
An apparatus for transporting sheets into a fixed image reading position has a drive roller and a pad. The pad has a lower layer made of a flexible material and an upper layer provided on the lower layer and made of rigid material in the form of film with a kinetic friction coefficient of 0.2 or less. The is biased to the drive roller so that the upper layer contacts a peripheral surface of the drive roller to form a nipping region between the drive roller and the pad by a compressive deformation of the flexible lower layer of the pad.
Claims7
An apparatus for transporting sheets into a fixed image reading position, comprising:
- a drive roller;
- and
- a pad having a lower layer made of a flexible material and an upper layer provided on the lower layer and made of rigid material in the form of film with a kinetic friction coefficient of 0.2 or less, the pad being biased to the drive roller so that the upper layer contacts a peripheral surface of the drive roller to form a nipping region between the drive roller and the pad by a compressive deformation of the flexible lower layer of the pad.
An apparatus for transporting sheets into a fixed image reading position, comprising:
- a drive roller;
- a pad having a rigid backup portion, a lower layer made of a flexible material and an upper layer provided on the lower layer and made of rigid material in the form of film with a kinetic friction coefficient of 0.2 or less;
- and
- a spring which biases the pad to the drive roller so that the upper layer contacts a peripheral surface of the drive roller to form a nipping region between the drive roller and the pad by a compressive deformation of the flexible lower layer of the pad.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.