- Patent Title: Sheet conveying device, image reading device incorporating the sheet conveying device, image forming apparatus incorporating the sheet conveying device, and image forming system incorporating the sheet conveying device
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Application No.: US16260216Application Date: 2019-01-29
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Publication No.: US11442390B2Publication Date: 2022-09-13
- Inventor: Yuuki Shiga , Hideto Higaki , Jumpei Aoyama , Hirofumi Horita , Junpei Kamichi
- Applicant: Yuuki Shiga , Hideto Higaki , Jumpei Aoyama , Hirofumi Horita , Junpei Kamichi
- Applicant Address: JP Kanagawa; JP Kanagawa; JP Kanagawa; JP Kanagawa; JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Yuuki Shiga,Hideto Higaki,Jumpei Aoyama,Hirofumi Horita,Junpei Kamichi
- Current Assignee: Yuuki Shiga,Hideto Higaki,Jumpei Aoyama,Hirofumi Horita,Junpei Kamichi
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kanagawa; JP Kanagawa; JP Kanagawa; JP Kanagawa; JP Tokyo
- Agency: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C.
- Priority: JPJP2018-018644 20180205
- Main IPC: G03G15/00
- IPC: G03G15/00 ; B65H5/06

Abstract:
A sheet conveying device includes conveyance passage forming bodies to define a sheet conveyance passage, a nip forming body to form a conveying nip region in the sheet conveyance passage, and a flexible plate body having a support portion to be attached to another body and having a downstream-side end portion as a free end in a sheet conveying direction. The support portion of the flexible plate body is located on an upstream side in the sheet conveying direction with respect to the conveying nip region. The free end being located on a downstream side in the sheet conveying direction with respect to the conveying nip region.
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