Image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTerutaka Endo
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet, a duplex conveyance path through which the sheet having the image formed by the image forming unit on a first side passes when an image is formed on a second side that is a back side of the first side, a guiding member provided along the duplex conveyance path, a reversing roller pair capable of rotating in a forward direction and in a reverse direction, h, and a conveyance roller pair provided on the duplex conveyance path, wherein at least one of the reversing roller pair is inclined to the width direction so that, in the width direction, the side end of the sheet being conveyed by the reversing roller pair rotating in the reverse direction moves closer to the contact portion.
Claims5
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet;
- a duplex conveyance path through which the sheet having the image formed by the image forming unit on a first side of the sheet passes in a case where an image is formed on a second side of the sheet that is a back side of the first side of the sheet;
- a guiding member including a contact portion configured to guide the sheet by contacting a side end of the sheet, in a width direction of the sheet, conveyed at the duplex conveyance path, the guide member being provided along the duplex conveyance path;
- and
- a conveying portion configured to convey the sheet in a first direction toward the duplex conveyance path, the conveying portion conveying the sheet in the first direction after conveying the sheet in a second direction opposite to the first direction,
- wherein the conveying portion is configured to convey the sheet in the first direction so that the side end of the sheet approaches the contact portion in the width direction of the sheet as the sheet moves in the first direction.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a first conveying portion;
- a conveyance path where a sheet, which has passed the first conveying portion, passes toward the first conveying portion again;
- a guiding member including a contact portion configured to guide the sheet by contacting a side end of the sheet, in a width direction of the sheet, conveyed at the conveyance path, the guide member being provided along the conveyance path;
- and
- a second conveying portion configured to convey the sheet in a first direction toward the conveyance path, the second conveying portion conveying the sheet in the first direction after conveying the sheet in a second direction opposite to the first direction,
- wherein the second conveying portion is configured to convey the sheet in the first direction so that the side end of the sheet approaches the contact portion in the width direction of the sheet as the sheet moves in the first direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.