Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Switchback mechanism and image forming apparatus
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Application No.: US12149331Application Date: 2008-04-30
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Publication No.: US07918451B2Publication Date: 2011-04-05
- Inventor: Haruyuki Honda , Hiroshi Fujiwara , Yasuhide Ohkubo , Ippei Kimura , Toshikane Nishii , Shigeo Nanno , Mizuna Tanaka , Tomoyoshi Yamazaki , Masafumi Takahira
- Applicant: Haruyuki Honda , Hiroshi Fujiwara , Yasuhide Ohkubo , Ippei Kimura , Toshikane Nishii , Shigeo Nanno , Mizuna Tanaka , Tomoyoshi Yamazaki , Masafumi Takahira
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
- Current Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C.
- Priority: JP2007-131767 20070517
- Main IPC: B65H5/00
- IPC: B65H5/00

Abstract:
In a color printer in which a drive force of a fixed gear that rotates not in both a forward direction and a reverse direction but in either one direction only is transmitted to a discharging unit, a swing gear is attached to a branch guide via a switching link and a transmission link as a link mechanism. When a solenoid mechanism starts driving, the transmission link rotates. In accordance with the rotation of the transmission link, the switching link rotates, so that a switching among a discharge conveying path, a duplex-printing conveying path, and a switchback conveying path by the branch guide and a switching of a rotating direction of a transmission gear can be simultaneously performed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080284090A1 Switchback mechanism and image forming apparatus Public/Granted day:2008-11-20
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