Image forming apparatus with rotary element opposite an image reading unit
AssigneeFUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
InventorsShusaku Yokota, Yoshinori Wada, Kazutoshi Shima
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a sheet transport path that transports a sheet on which an image has been recorded, the sheet transport path including a first guide surface and a second guide surface opposed to the first guide surface, an image reading unit disposed on the same side as the first guide surface of the sheet transport path to read the image, and a rotary element disposed on the same side as the second guide surface, the rotary element being rotatably disposed with a gap between the rotary element and the first guide surface.
Claims16
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a sheet transport path configured to transport a sheet on which an image has been recorded, the sheet transport path including a first guide surface and a second guide surface opposed to the first guide surface;
- an image reading unit disposed on a same side as the first guide surface of the sheet transport path and configured to read the image, the image reading unit includes a light-emitting part to emit light;
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- a cylindrical rotary element disposed on a same side as the second guide surface, the cylindrical rotary element being rotatably disposed with a an air gap between the cylindrical rotary element and the first guide surface, along a full length of the cylindrical rotary element, when the image reading unit reads the image,
- wherein the first guide surface includes a light passing part configured to allow light emitted from the light-emitting part pass through,
- wherein the cylindrical rotary element is disposed overlapping the light passing part in a direction of transport of the sheet in the sheet transport path, and
- wherein the cylindrical rotary element is disposed in an area opposite to the image reading unit in a direction perpendicular to a surface of the transported sheet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.