Sheet Conveying Apparatus
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMasao Mimoto, Shohei Ichikawa, Kengo Noda, Tsuyoshi Ito, Yoshimitsu Taniguchi
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Abstract
A sheet conveying apparatus includes: a conveying roller configured to convey a sheet in a conveying direction; driven rollers arranged with intervals in a width direction intersecting with the conveying direction, the driven rollers being opposed to the conveying roller in a direction perpendicular to the conveying direction and the width direction; and coil springs provided corresponding to the driven rollers respectively and serving as rotating shafts for rotatably supporting the driven rollers, wherein the coil springs include a right-handed twining coil spring and a left-handed twining coil spring.
Claims9
A sheet conveying apparatus comprising:
- a conveying roller configured to convey a sheet in a conveying direction;
- driven rollers arranged with intervals in a width direction intersecting with the conveying direction, the driven rollers being opposed to the conveying roller in a direction perpendicular to the conveying direction and the width direction;
- and
- coil springs provided corresponding to the driven rollers respectively and serving as rotating shafts for rotatably supporting the driven rollers,
- wherein the coil springs include a right-handed twining coil spring and a left-handed twining coil spring.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.