Sheet Conveyor Device
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorDaisuke Kozaki
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Abstract
A sheet conveyor device includes a conveyor that convey a sheet along a conveyance path in a conveying direction, a sheet stack portion that receives the sheet conveyed by the conveyor, and a conducting member. The conveyor includes an ejection roller that ejects the sheet to the sheet stack portion. The conducting member includes a contact portion, disposed along the conveyance path downstream of the ejection roller, that comes into contact with the sheet conveyed by the conveyor, and a discharge portion that discharges static electricity transferred to the contact portion by contact between the sheet and the contact portion.
Claims20
A sheet conveyor device comprising:
- a conveyor configured to convey a sheet along a conveyance path in a conveying direction, the conveyor comprising an ejection roller;
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- a sheet stack portion configured to receive the sheet conveyed by the conveyor, the ejection roller configured to eject the sheet to the sheet stack portion;
- a first guide surface disposed in the conveyance path and downstream of the ejection roller in the conveying direction, and configured to guide the sheet to the sheet stack portion;
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- a conducting member comprising:
- a contact portion next to the first guide surface along the conveyance path and configured to come into contact with the sheet conveyed by the conveyor;
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- a discharge portion configured to discharge static electricity that is transferred to the contact portion by contact between the sheet and the contact portion.
A sheet conveyor device comprising:
- a conveyor configured to convey a sheet along a conveyance path in a conveying direction, the conveyor comprising an ejection roller;
- a sheet stack portion configured to receive the sheet conveyed by the conveyor, the ejection roller configured to eject the sheet to the sheet stack portion;
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- a conducting member comprising:
- a contact portion disposed along the conveyance path and downstream of the ejection roller and configured to come into contact with the sheet conveyed by the conveyor;
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- a discharge portion configured to discharge static electricity that is transferred to the contact portion by contact between the sheet and the contact portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.