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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2018
Filed:
May. 18, 2017
Applicants:
Masato Ogawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Kohki Asada, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Masato Ogawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Kohki Asada, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 11/00 (2006.01); B41J 2/01 (2006.01); B41J 13/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/01 (2013.01); B41J 11/002 (2013.01); B41J 11/007 (2013.01); B41J 11/0015 (2013.01); B41J 13/08 (2013.01);
Abstract
A conveying device includes a blower, a wind-permeable sheet material supporter, and a conveyor. The blower blows air toward a sheet material. The sheet material supporter supports a center region of the sheet material from a back side of a blown surface of the sheet material. The conveyor conveys the sheet material through a blowing region blown by the blower, while sandwiching an end region of the sheet material in a sheet-material width direction perpendicular to a sheet-material conveyance direction in which the sheet material is conveyed by the conveyor.