Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Sheet detection device, sheet conveyance device, and image forming apparatus
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Application No.: US15338130Application Date: 2016-10-28
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Publication No.: US09862559B2Publication Date: 2018-01-09
- Inventor: Masato Suzuki , Takashi Yano , Takateru Ohkubo
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Canon U.S.A., Inc. IP Division
- Priority: JP2015-216674 20151104
- Main IPC: B65H7/02
- IPC: B65H7/02 ; B65H7/14 ; G03G15/00 ; B65H3/34

Abstract:
A sheet detection unit includes a photo-interrupter, a shutter holder, and shutter members held to be movable relative to the shutter holder. The shutter members include a sheet rear end detection portion capable of switching an optical axis between a light-interrupted state and a light-transmitted state and each are supported to be movable to an abutment position where the shutter member causes an abutment surface to protrude, and also movable to a retracted position where the shutter member is retracted from a sheet conveyance path. Based on a detection signal output from the photo-interrupter by the sheet front end detection portion and the sheet rear end detection portion moving relative to the optical axis, a control unit determines the presence or absence of a sheet.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170121137A1 SHEET DETECTION DEVICE, SHEET CONVEYANCE DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2017-05-04
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