Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Sheet conveyance device
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Application No.: US14927860Application Date: 2015-10-30
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Publication No.: US09609159B2Publication Date: 2017-03-28
- Inventor: Koji Hatayama , Yasunobu Youda , Yohei Osanai , Tatsuaki Nagano , Kazushige Kawamura , Toshiyuki Horikawa
- Applicant: Koji Hatayama , Yasunobu Youda , Yohei Osanai , Tatsuaki Nagano , Kazushige Kawamura , Toshiyuki Horikawa
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
- Current Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C.
- Priority: JP2014-221795 20141030
- Main IPC: H04N1/04
- IPC: H04N1/04 ; H04N1/00 ; B65H5/26 ; B65H29/58 ; B65H1/04 ; B65H5/06

Abstract:
A sheet conveyance device includes a sheet mount on which a standard-sized sheet is mountable; a first conveyor to bring in the sheet from the mount, convey the sheet through a reverse conveyance path such that the sheet passes through a specific operation position, and eject the sheet into a sheet ejection area outside the mount; and a second conveyor to bring in a hard sheet with a higher bending rigidity than the sheet from one end of a straight conveyance path along a plane passing through the specific position of the reverse path, and eject the hard sheet conveyed along the straight path from another end of the straight path at a sheet ejection area side. The mount includes a hard sheet ejection port to let through at least a leading edge portion of the hard sheet to be ejected from the second conveyor in a sheet ejection direction.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160127590A1 SHEET CONVEYANCE DEVICE Public/Granted day:2016-05-05
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