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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2000
Toshiyuki Osaka, Osaka, JP;
Naoki Motobayashi, Kawachinagano, JP;
Hiromichi Oguma, Kobe, JP;
Hideaki Kimata, Osaka, JP;
Yasunori Ueno, Sanda, JP;
Hiroshi Kusumoto, Wakayama, JP;
Kyocera Mita Corporation, Osaka-fu, JP;
Abstract
A switchback device has an inverting tray for temporarily holding a sheet guided inside the switchback device thereon; a guide unit for guiding the sheet in pressing contact with the inverting tray when the sheet exits the switchback device in an exiting direction on the inverting tray, the exiting direction opposite to an entering direction of the sheet on the inverting tray; a guide switching unit for selectively changing the guide unit to a sheet guide allow state to allow the sheet to enter in the entering direction on the inverting tray and a sheet pressing state to make the sheet in pressing contact with the inverting; and a sheet transporting unit for transporting the sheet out of the switchback device in the exiting direction on the inverting tray.