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US 9,517,906 B2Granted
Conveying guide, sheet conveying apparatus, and image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYutaka Nishimura
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Abstract
A conveying guide includes: a plate having a guide surface which guides a sheet; a recess portion provided on the plate and recessed from the guide surface; and a bend portion bent from the recess portion in a direction away from the guide surface.
Claims30
A conveying guide comprising:
- a plate having a guide surface which guides a sheet, the guide surface being linear in both a sheet conveying direction and a direction perpendicular to the sheet conveying direction;
- a recess surface which is a surface of the plate recessed from the guide surface, the recess surface located at an area through which a guided sheet passes;
- and
- a bend portion which is a portion of the plate and bent from the recess surface in a direction away from the guide surface to define an edge with the recess surface, a surface of the bend portion crossing a direction orthogonal to a sheet conveying direction,
- wherein the surface of the bend portion has an opening.
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A sheet conveying apparatus comprising:
- a plate having a guide surface which guides a sheet, the guide surface being linear in both a sheet conveying direction and a direction perpendicular to the sheet conveying direction;
- a recess surface which is a surface of the plate recessed from the guide surface, the recess surface located at an area through which a guided sheet passes;
- a bend portion which is a portion of the plate and bent from the recess surface in a direction away from the guide surface to define an edge with the recess surface, a surface of the bend portion crossing a direction orthogonal to a sheet conveying direction;
- and
- a rotating portion rotatably supported at the bend portion,
- wherein the surface of the bend portion has an opening, and
- wherein the rotating portion rotates around an axis extending along a direction orthogonal to a sheet conveying direction and the axis extends through the opening.
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An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming portion which forms an image;
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- a sheet conveying apparatus,
- wherein the sheet conveying apparatus comprises:
- a plate having a guide surface which guides a sheet, the guide surface being linear in both a sheet conveying direction and a direction perpendicular to the sheet conveying direction;
- a recess surface which is a surface of the plate recessed from the guide surface, the recess surface located at an area through which a guided sheet passes;
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- a bend portion which is a portion of the plate and bent from the recess surface in a direction away from the guide surface to define an edge with the recess surface, a surface of the bend portion crossing a direction orthogonal to a sheet conveying direction;
- and
- a rotating portion rotatably supported at the bend portion,
- wherein the surface of the bend portion has an opening, and
- wherein the rotating portion rotates around an axis extending along the direction orthogonal to a sheet conveying direction and the axis extends through the opening.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.