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US 8,351,839 B2Granted
Medium transporting apparatus and image forming apparatus having the same
AssigneeOki Data Corporation
InventorKeigo Matsumoto
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Abstract
A medium transporting apparatus includes a first transport member and a movable guide member. The first transport member transports a medium in the medium transport direction. The movable guide member comes into contact with and guides the medium transported by the first transport member along a medium transport path. The movable guide member is also movable from a first position to a second position downstream of the first position in the medium transport direction.
Claims26
A medium transporting apparatus comprising:
- a first transport member that transports a medium;
- a movable guide member that comes into contact with and guides the medium transported by the first transport member along a medium transport path, the movable guide member being movable from a first position to a second position downstream of the first position in the medium transport direction;
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- a fixed guide member that guides the medium, the movable guide member moving along a medium transport surface of the fixed guide member, the fixed guide member including a plurality of ribs that come into contact with the medium and extend in the medium transport direction,
- wherein the movable guide member has a plurality of cutouts at one end thereof, the ribs of the fixed guide member projecting outward into the medium transport path from between the cutouts.
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A medium transporting apparatus comprising:
- a first transport member that transports a medium;
- a movable guide member that comes into contact with and guides the medium transported by the first transport member along a curved medium transport path, the movable guide member being movable from a first position to a second position downstream of the first position in the medium transport direction, the movable guide member being plate-like and having a curved surface corresponding to the medium transport path;
- a first fixed guide member that guides the medium, wherein the movable guide member moves along a medium transport surface of the first fixed guide member, at least a part of the movable guide member projects outward into the medium transport path from the medium transport surface of the first fixed guide member;
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- a second fixed guide member that opposes the movable guide member across the medium transport path,
- wherein a distance between the movable guide member and the second fixed guide member in a direction perpendicular to the medium transport direction gradually decreases along the medium transport direction.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.