Medium carrying device and image forming apparatus
AssigneeOki Data Corporation
InventorTakahiro SUNOHARA
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Abstract
A medium carrying device includes a first pair of rollers that forms a nip part and carries a medium, the nip part being defined as an area where the rollers contact each other applying a pressure to other, a guide part that guides the medium to the first pair of rollers, and a medium detection member that includes a tip end part and a pivoting fulcrum and that is pivoted around the pivoting fulcrum by the medium as the medium moves along the guide part. In a case of being viewed from a roller axial direction of the first pair of rollers, the tip end part passes the nip part when the medium detection member pivots around the pivoting fulcrum as a center.
Claims10
A medium carrying device, comprising:
- a first pair of rollers that forms a nip part and carries a medium, the nip part being defined as an area where the rollers contact each other applying a pressure to the other;
- a guide part that guides the medium to the first pair of rollers;
- and
- a medium detection member that includes a tip end part and a pivoting fulcrum and that is pivoted around the pivoting fulcrum by the medium as the medium moves along the guide part, wherein
- in a case of being viewed from a roller axial direction of the first pair of rollers, the tip end part passes the nip part when the medium detection member pivots around the pivoting fulcrum as a center.
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- an image forming part that forms an image to a medium;
- a first pair of rollers that forms a nip part and carries the medium on which the image is formed;
- a guide part that guides the medium to the first pair of rollers;
- and
- a medium detection member that includes a tip end part and a pivoting fulcrum and pivots as directly contacting the medium, wherein
- in a case of being viewed from a roller axial direction of the first pair of rollers, the tip end part passes the nip part when the medium detection member pivots around the pivoting fulcrum as a center.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.