Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Taiki Yamamoto

Kiyoshi Hata

Yuichiro Maeyama

Takashi Ebihara

Kazuhiro Shimojima

Yusuke Tokunaga

Takahiro Ogino

Satoshi Kohara

A sheet conveying device includes a sheet stacker, an air blower, and a guide. The sheet stacker stacks sheets. The air blower blows air to the sheets. The guide faces an uppermost sheet on the sheet stacker. A set height of a contact portion of the guide to contact the uppermost sheet is changeable.

Sheet conveying device and image forming system incorporating the sheet conveying device

A reading device and an image forming apparatus. The reading device includes a reader disposed at a scanning position, the reader being configured to read an image formed on a surface of a sheet, a movement mechanism to move the reader between the scanning position and a separated position away from the scanning position, and a reference plate disposed at a first position facing a reading face of the reader, the reference plate being configured to obtain a reference value to be used when the reader reads the image. In the reading device, the reference plate rotates around an axis from a second position facing a side of the reader to the first position or from the first position to the second position in conjunction with movement of the reader from the scanning position to the separated position by the movement mechanism The image forming apparatus includes the reading device.

Reading device and image forming apparatus

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Ibaraki, Japan

Taiki Yamamoto