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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 24, 2018
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Yuji Mitsui, Susono, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The detection unit includes a first contact member, which comes into contact with a first surface of a recording material and a second contact member, which comes into contact with a second surface of the recording material, the first contact member and the second contact member being disposed so as to oppose each other thus being capable of nipping the recording material, and the first contact member and the second contact member are movable in a direction in which the first contact member and the second contact member nip the recording material, and is rotatable about an axis line extending in a predetermined direction, the predetermined direction being orthogonal to the direction in which the first contact member and the second contact member are movable and being orthogonal to a conveyance direction of the recording material.