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US 8,998,204 B2Granted
Medium carrying device and image forming apparatus
AssigneeOki Data Corporation
InventorTakashi Kobayashi
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Abstract
A medium carrying device includes an apparatus body, medium guide unit that is detachable with respect to the apparatus body, a carrying roller that is disposed in the apparatus body, and is configured to rotate to carry a print medium passing through the medium guide unit, and a driven roller that is disposed in the medium guide unit at a position corresponding to the carrying roller in a contacting manner so that the driven roller rotates in accordance with a rotation of the carrying roller.
Claims24
A medium carrying device, comprising:
- an apparatus body;
- a medium guide unit that is detachable with respect to the apparatus body;
- a carrying roller that is disposed in the apparatus body, and is configured to rotate to carry a print medium passing through the medium guide unit;
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- a driven roller that is disposed in the medium guide unit at a position corresponding to the carrying roller in a contacting manner so that the driven roller rotates in accordance with a rotation of the carrying roller, wherein
- the medium guide unit is slidably pulled out from the apparatus body,
- the medium guide unit is movable between a pulled-out position at which the medium guide unit is held outside the apparatus body while being connected to the apparatus body, and a carryable position at which the medium guide unit is installed inside the apparatus body and carries the print medium,
- the driven roller in the medium guide unit and the carrying roller in the apparatus body contact each other when the medium guide unit is at the carryable position, and
- the contact between the driven roller and the carrying roller is released when the medium guide unit is at the pulled-out position.
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A medium carrying device, comprising:
- an apparatus body;
- a medium guide unit that is detachable with respect to the apparatus body and includes
- a first guide member guiding a print medium, and
- a second guide member swingably attached to the first guide member;
- and
- a unit lead part that is configured to create a gap between the first and second guide members when the medium guide unit is fully fit in the apparatus body, and that is configured to narrow the gap, compared to a condition under the medium guide unit is fully fit in the apparatus body, while the medium guide unit is being pulled out and being inserted into the apparatus body.
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A medium carrying device, comprising:
- an apparatus body having a side wall;
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- a medium guide unit that guides a print medium in a medium carrying direction and that is pulled out through the side wall of the apparatus body, the medium guide unit including a first guide, a second guide, and a swing axis that extends in a direction perpendicular to the medium carrying direction and that connects the first guide and the second guide, wherein
- the second guide is swingable about the swing axis with respect to the first guide,
- the medium guide unit has a first end and a second end in the medium carrying direction, the first end being closer to the side wall of the apparatus body than is the second end when the medium guide unit is at a pulled-out position at which the medium guide unit is held outside the apparatus body while being connected to the apparatus body,
- the swing axis is located in the vicinity of the first end.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.