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US 8,805,269 B2Granted
Sensor, conveying device, and image forming apparatus
AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
InventorKeiichi Aoyagi
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Abstract
A sensor includes: a light emitting part that emits light; a light receiving part that receives reflected light, which is emitted from the light emitting part, is reflected, and returns; and plural arranged fiber bodies that are disposed on a front side of at least one of the light emitting part and the light receiving part and operate as a filter limiting an emission angle or a light receiving angle.
Claims17
A conveying device comprising:
- a conveying member that conveys a body to be conveyed;
- a sensor that is disposed at a position adjacent to a conveying path of the body to be conveyed and detects the body to be conveyed;
- and
- a cleaner housing that is disposed on a downstream side of the sensor,
- wherein the sensor includes:
- a light emitting part that emits light,
- a light receiving part that receives reflected light, which is emitted from the light emitting part, is reflected, and returns, and
- a plurality of fiber bodies that are disposed on a front side of at least one of the light emitting part and the light receiving part and operate as a filter limiting an emission angle or a light receiving angle,
- wherein the plurality of fiber bodies are woven into a mesh,
- wherein the light emitting part is configured to incline at a first inclination angle and the light receiving part is configured to incline at a second inclination angle such that the light emitting part and the light receiving part are aimed at different portions of the cleaner housing, and
- wherein the first inclination angle and the second inclination angle are different inclination angles.
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An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming section that forms an image on a recording medium;
- a conveying member that conveys the recording medium to the image forming section and further conveys the recording medium on which the image is formed in the image forming section;
- a sensor that is disposed at a position adjacent to a conveying path of the recording medium and detects the recording medium;
- and
- a cleaner housing that is disposed on a downstream side of the sensor,
- wherein the sensor includes:
- a light emitting part that emits light,
- a light receiving part that receives reflected light, which is emitted from the light emitting part, is reflected, and returns, and
- a plurality of fiber bodies that are disposed on a front side of at least one of the light emitting part and the light receiving part and operate as a filter limiting an emission angle or a light receiving angle,
- wherein the plurality of fiber bodies are woven into a mesh,
- wherein the light emitting part is configured to incline at a first inclination angle and the light receiving part is configured to incline at a second inclination angle such that the light emitting part and the light receiving part are aimed at different portions of the cleaner housing, and
- wherein the first inclination angle and the second inclination angle are different inclination angles.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.