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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2024
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2023
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Sakai, JP;
Shohtaroh Okamoto, Sakai, JP;
SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Sakai, JP;
Abstract
An edge regulating member provided in a belt rotation device that tensions a belt via a belt tensioning roller and rotates the belt in a rotation direction includes a body that comes into contact with an inner surface of the belt and a regulating portion that extends, at a position adjacent to the body, further outward in a radial direction of the belt tensioning roller than the body, and comes into contact with an edge of the belt. Tension of the belt acting on the body while the inner surface of the belt is in contact with the body causes the regulating portion to tilt, turned outward in the rotation axis direction from a fold-back portion of the belt toward an upstream side in the rotation direction.