Sheet conveying device and sheet accumulating device provided with the same
AssigneeCanon Finetech Nisca Inc.
InventorShin Tsugane
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Abstract
The present invention is to provide a sheet conveying device capable of reducing noise. The sheet conveying device includes an endless belt that gives a conveying force to a sheet and a rotating member engaged with an outer peripheral portion of the endless belt. The endless belt has, on its outer peripheral portion, a plurality of convex portions arranged in a peripheral direction thereof, the convex portions each extending in a width direction thereof. The rotating member has a contact portion that contacts the outer peripheral portion of the endless belt and deforms a plurality of points of each of the convex portions in the width direction.
Claims10
A sheet conveying device, comprising:
- an endless belt that gives a conveying force to a sheet;
- and
- a rotating member that contacts an outer peripheral portion of the endless belt and rotates with the endless belt, wherein
- the endless belt has, on its outer peripheral portion, first convex portions arranged in a peripheral direction of the endless belt, and each of the first convex portions extends in a width direction of the endless belt,
- the width direction is a direction intersecting a rotational direction of the rotating member, and
- the rotating member has a second convex portions, each of the second convex portions extends in a peripheral direction of the rotating member, the second convex portions are arrayed in the width direction, and each of the second convex portions contacts the outer peripheral portion of the endless belt.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.