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US 2019/0092594 A1Published application
Sheet conveying apparatus and image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHideki Mori, Masanori Ozawa, Jiroh Itoh, Yoshiaki Kisara
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Abstract
Disclosed is a sheet conveying apparatus. The sheet conveying apparatus includes a conveying roller pair (58) for conveying a sheet, a registration roller pair (57) disposed downstream of the conveying roller pair (58) and a guide portion for guiding the sheet conveyed to the registration roller pair (57) by the conveying roller pair (58) such that the sheet is deflected. Further, the guide portion guides the sheet such that a number of deflection nodes changes according to stiffness of the sheet.
Claims9
A sheet conveying apparatus, comprising:
- a conveying roller pair configured to convey a sheet;
- a registration roller pair disposed downstream of the conveying roller pair, for correcting skew feeding of the sheet with a leading end of the sheet conveyed by the conveying roller pair abutting against the registration roller pair;
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- a guide portion configured to guide the sheet conveyed to the registration roller pair by the conveying roller pair such that the sheet is deflected,
- wherein the guide portion includes a movable guide that is movable from a first position where an abutting portion of the guide portion for abutting the sheet that is conveyed is located on one side of a nip line of the conveying roller pair to a second position where the abutting portion is located on the other side of the nip line.
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An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a sheet conveying apparatus;
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- an image forming portion configured to form an image on a sheet conveyed by the sheet conveying apparatus,
- wherein the sheet conveying apparatus includes:
- a conveying roller pair configured to convey the sheet;
- a registration roller pair disposed downstream of the conveying roller pair, for correcting skew feeding of the sheet with a leading end of the sheet conveyed by the conveying roller pair abutting against the registration roller pair;
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- a guide portion configured to guide the sheet conveyed to the registration roller pair by the conveying roller pair such that the sheet is deflected,
- wherein the guide portion includes a movable guide that is movable from a first position where an abutting portion of the guide portion for abutting the sheet that is conveyed is located on one side of a nip line of the conveying roller pair to a second position where the abutting portion is located on the other side of the nip line.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.