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US 2014/0124334 A1Published application
Medium conveyance apparatus
AssigneeOki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
InventorShinji Sado
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Abstract
A medium conveyance apparatus includes a conveyance roller, a pinch roller and a pinch roller spring. The pinch roller includes a pinch roller shaft and a bearing. The pinch roller shaft has a flat surface formed thereon to be made in contact with a spring flat surface of the pinch roller spring, thereby preventing the pinch roller shaft from rotating together with the bearing.
Claims11
A medium conveyance apparatus comprising:
- a conveyance roller rotatably provided on a rotation shaft, and contacting with one surface of a sheet-like medium to convey the medium;
- a bearing provided opposite to said conveyance roller, and contacting with another surface of the medium to rotate while said conveyance roller rotates;
- a shaft arranged substantially in parallel to the rotation shaft of said conveyance roller to move said bearing toward said conveyance roller;
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- a shaft rotation suppression element suppressing said shaft from rotating together with said bearing.
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A medium transaction apparatus comprising:
- a reception section receiving a transaction on a sheet-like medium;
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- a conveyance channel conveying the medium received by said reception section,
- said conveyance channel further comprising:
- a conveyance roller rotatably provided on a rotation shaft, and contacting with one surface of the medium to convey the medium;
- a bearing provided opposite to said conveyance roller, and contacting with another surface of the medium to rotate while said conveyance roller rotates;
- a shaft arranged substantially in parallel to the rotation shaft of said conveyance roller to move said bearing toward said conveyance roller;
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- a shaft rotation suppression element suppressing said shaft from rotating together with said bearing.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.