Sheet conveying apparatus and image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYohei Suzuki
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a sheet conveying apparatus, comprising: a conveying portion conveying a sheet; a shutter member having an abutting surface for abutting the sheet to correct skew feeding; a biasing member for biasing the shutter member to position at a first position where the leading end abuts against the abutting surface; and a support mechanism which movably supports the shutter member to move in an order of the first position, a second position to which the shutter member moves by the sheet against biasing from the biasing member, and a third position where the shutter member abuts the sheet and stands by to move to the first position when a trailing end of the sheet passes the shutter member, while keeping the abutting surface facing upstream.
Claims16
A sheet conveying apparatus, comprising:
- a conveying portion which conveys a sheet;
- a shutter member having an abutting surface that abuts against a leading end of the sheet to correct skew feeding of the sheet conveyed by the conveying portion;
- a biasing member which applies a biasing force to the shutter member to position at a first position where the leading end abuts against the abutting surface;
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- a support mechanism which movably supports the shutter member such that the shutter member moves in an order of the first position, a second position to which the shutter member moves by the sheet being conveyed against the biasing force of the biasing member, and a third position where the shutter member abuts the surface of the sheet being conveyed and stands by to move to the first position when a trailing end of the sheet passes the shutter member, while keeping the abutting surface facing upstream in a sheet conveying direction.
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a conveying portion which conveys a sheet;
- a shutter member having an abutting surface that abuts against a leading end of the sheet to correct skew feeding of the sheet conveyed by the conveying portion;
- a biasing member which applies a biasing force to the shutter member to position at a first position where the leading end abuts against the abutting surface;
- a support mechanism which movably supports the shutter member such that the shutter member moves in an order of the first position, a second position to which the shutter member moves by the sheet being conveyed against the biasing force of the biasing member, and a third position where the shutter member abuts the surface of the sheet being conveyed and stands by to move to the first position when a trailing end of the sheet passes the shutter member, while keeping the abutting surface facing upstream in a sheet conveying direction;
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- an image forming portion which forms an image on the sheet fed from the sheet conveying apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.