Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus
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Application No.: US17381298Application Date: 2021-07-21
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Publication No.: US11415917B2Publication Date: 2022-08-16
- Inventor: Yuichiro Ichinose , Kenta Tosuji
- Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Nagoya
- Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Nagoya
- Agency: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, PC
- Priority: JPJP2020-125383 20200722
- Main IPC: G03G15/23
- IPC: G03G15/23 ; B65H85/00 ; G03G21/16

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image formation engine configured to form an image on a sheet, and a re-conveyer configured to convey the sheet having an image formed on one surface thereof by the image formation engine to the image formation engine again along a re-conveying path. The re-conveyer includes a conveying roller configured to convey the sheet in a re-conveying direction toward the image formation engine, a first guide member configured to be swingable between a first position at which the first guide member defines a portion of the re-conveying path upstream of the conveying roller in the re-conveying direction and guides the sheet to the conveying roller and a second position for exposing the potion of the re-conveying path, and a support member configured to swingably support the first guide member and rotatably support the conveying roller.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220026838A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2022-01-27
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