Sheet conveying apparatus and recording apparatus using electrostatic attraction
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKoichi Tanno
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a sheet conveying apparatus comprising a conveyance belt for supporting and conveying a sheet, an attraction force generating device for electrostatically attracting the sheet, a voltage supplying device for supplying voltage to a voltage receiving portion of an electrode of the attraction force generating means formed at a side edge with respect to a moving direction of the conveyance belt and a protection member formed at a side edge with respect to a moving direction of the conveyance belt for isolating the voltage receiving portion of the electrode of the attraction force generating device from an exterior by covering the entire side edge of the conveyance belt.
Claims19
A sheet conveying apparatus comprising:
- a conveyance belt for supporting and conveying a sheet;
- attraction force generating means formed in the conveyance belt and comprising electrodes for electrostatically attracting the sheet, the electrodes comprising voltage receiving portions formed at a side edge with respect to a moving direction of the conveyance belt;
- supplying means for supplying voltage to the voltage receiving portions;
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- a protection member provided at the side edge with respect to a moving direction of the conveyance belt for isolating the voltage receiving portions and said supplying means from an exterior by covering the voltage receiving portions and the supplying means.
A recording apparatus for recording images with a recording head, comprising:
- a recording head mounting member which mounts the recording head;
- a conveyance belt for supporting and conveying a sheet;
- attraction force generating means formed in the conveyance belt and comprising electrodes for electrostatically attracting the sheet, the electrodes comprising voltage receiving portions formed at a side edge with respect to a moving direction of the conveyange belt;
- supplying means for supplying voltage to the voltage receiving portions;
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- a protection member provided at a side edge with respect to a moving direction of the conveyance belt for isolating the voltage receiving portions and said supplying means from an exterior by covering the voltage receiving portions and the supplying means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.