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US 2012/0268542 A1Published application
Recording apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsShunya Sunouchi, Haruo Uchida, Hiroyuki Saito, Noriyuki Sugiyama, Kentaro Onuma
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Abstract
A recording apparatus has a pair of bearings 38 having: two surfaces 38a and 38b which support both edge portions of a conveying roller 40; driven rollers 42 which press the conveying roller 40 in the direction where extension lines of the two surfaces 38a and 38b cross; and further, an intermediate bearing 47 which presses the conveying roller 40 in the direction of a point where the extension lines of the two surfaces 38a and 38b cross.
Claims10
A conveying apparatus for conveying a sheet, comprising:
- a conveying roller configured to convey the sheet;
- a pair of first bearings supporting the conveying roller, wherein each first bearing has two surfaces which contact and support the conveying roller, and the pair of first bearings is spaced along the roller in an axial direction;
- a first biasing unit which presses the conveying roller via a pressing roller towards the two surfaces;
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- a second biasing unit which biases the conveying roller so that the conveying roller presses the two surfaces.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.