Sheet carrying device
AssigneeRiso Kagaku Corporation
InventorKazuhiro Kato
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Abstract
According to the sheet carrying device of the present invention, the controlling unit changes the driving power of the fan driving source, depending on characteristics of the sheet. Therefore, appropriate sucking power can be caused to act, depending on the sort of the carried sheet.
Claims11
A sheet carrying device comprising a carrying belt which is disposed in a sheet discharge section of an image forming machine and can move by driving power, a suction fan located below the carrying belt, and a fan driving source which supplies rotating power to the suction fan, wherein a sheet on the carrying belt being caused to adhere to the carrying belt by sucking power of the suction fan and carried, further comprising:
- a sheet data detecting unit for detecting data on the carried sheet, and
- a controlling unit for controlling driving power of the fan driving source to make the sheet sucking power appropriate on the basis of the data on the carried sheet detected by means of the sheet data detecting unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.