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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2022
Filed:
Nov. 19, 2019
Applicant:
Tomohiro Egawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventor:
Tomohiro Egawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 29/00 (2006.01); B65H 5/12 (2006.01); B65H 7/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 5/12 (2013.01); B65H 7/06 (2013.01); B65H 29/003 (2013.01);
Abstract
A sheet conveying device includes a sheet conveyor, a guide, a rotary conveyor, a gripper, and an adjuster. The sheet conveyor is configured to convey a sheet. The guide is configured to guide the sheet conveyed by the sheet conveyor. The rotary conveyor is disposed downstream from the guide in a sheet conveyance direction. The gripper is mounted on the rotary conveyor, the gripper configured to grip a leading end of the sheet. The adjuster is configured to adjust a sheet entering range of the gripper to which the leading end of the sheet enters, along with conveyance of the sheet conveyor, in a direction intersecting a sheet surface.