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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 08, 1999
Masayuki Kakuta, Osaka, JP;
Masaki Deguchi, Osaka, JP;
Hiroshi Kobayashi, Osaka, JP;
Jun Kusakabe, Osaka, JP;
Yutaka Aso, Osaka, JP;
Kuniaki Araishi, Osaka, JP;
Shigeo Kurando, Osaka, JP;
Kyocera Mita Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A sheet transport device is provided with a sheet inverting mechanism for retracting a sheet transported along a main transport route into a switchback route to invert the sheet transport direction and returning the sheet into the main transport route to turn the side of the sheet. The sheet transport device has a pair of sheet guides adapted in contact with respective opposite ends of the sheet set on a sheet setting portion to prevent a skew transport of the sheet. The sheet temporarily brought onto the sheet setting portion during a switchback operation from the switchback route is guided between of the sheet guides on the sheet setting portion. During the temporal appearance on the sheet setting portion, the opposite ends of the sheet are aligned by the respective sheet guides. Thereby, securely prevented is an occurrence of a skew transport state of the sheet during the switchback operation.