Image forming apparatus
AssigneeKonica Minolta, Inc.
InventorToshiaki Tomino
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Abstract
Provided is an image forming apparatus with rollers capable of coming into contact with or leaving a recording medium, in which meandering of the recording medium is suppressed. The apparatus includes a tension adjuster for adjusting a tension applied to the recording medium nipped between a plurality of roller pairs. The tension adjuster is located upstream of, among the roller pairs, the most upstream roller pair located on the most upstream side in the conveyance path or downstream of, among the roller pairs, the most downstream roller pair located on the most downstream side in the conveyance path and the tension adjuster rotates in the direction of conveyance of the recording medium to adjust the tension of the recording medium.
Claims9
An image forming apparatus conveying a recording medium along a conveyance path, comprising:
- a plurality of roller pairs provided along the conveyance path and capable of coming into contact with and leaving the recording medium;
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- a tension adjuster for adjusting a tension applied to the recording medium held between the plural roller pairs,
- wherein the tension adjuster is located upstream of, among the plural roller pairs, a most upstream roller pair located on a most upstream side in the conveyance path or downstream of a most downstream roller pair located on a most downstream side in the conveyance path and rotates in a direction of conveyance of the recording medium to adjust the tension of the recording medium.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.