Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Roller mechanism and image forming device
- Patent Title (中): 滚子机构和成像装置
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Application No.: US12041001Application Date: 2008-03-03
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Publication No.: US07878504B2Publication Date: 2011-02-01
- Inventor: Kenji Ikeda , Hiroaki Satoh , Susumu Kibayashi , Toru Nishida , Takeshi Zengo
- Applicant: Kenji Ikeda , Hiroaki Satoh , Susumu Kibayashi , Toru Nishida , Takeshi Zengo
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Fildes & Outland, P.C.
- Priority: JP2007-211686 20070815
- Main IPC: B65H5/02
- IPC: B65H5/02

Abstract:
A roller mechanism includes a pair of rollers and an urging unit. The pair of rollers oppose one another sandwiching a conveyance path of a sheet material, and are provided to be capable of increasing and reducing an axis-to-axis separation thereof. The urging unit urges at least one of the pair of rollers in a direction of reducing the axis-to-axis separation of the pair of rollers with an urging force that increases with an increase in the axis-to-axis separation of the pair of rollers, and presses the sheet material with the pair of rollers. The urging unit increases the urging force non-linearly, with a rate of increase of the urging force falling as the axis-to-axis separation of the pair of rollers increases within a range of changes at times of sheet material-pressing.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090045569A1 ROLLER MECHANISM AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE Public/Granted day:2009-02-19
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