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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2000
Norikazu Kawai, Kyoto, JP;
Takeshi Kakinuma, Kyoto, JP;
Koji Kirino, Kyoto, JP;
Takahiro Ono, Kyoto, JP;
Omron Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
A sheet inversion device for inverting a sheet that is fed in and for feeding out the inverted sheet has intermediate rollers, feed-in rollers, feed-out rollers, inversion rollers, and pressing guide members. The feed-in rollers are positioned on one side of the intermediate rollers to feed a sheet. The feed-out rollers are located on the other side of the intermediate rollers to feed the sheet. The inversion rollers are located to the rear in the feed-in direction upon the receipt of the force produced by the advance of a sheet slip across the sheet while rotating in the feed-out direction. The pressing guide members exert, with the inversion rollers, a sheet pressing force to counter the force transmitted by the sheet. In the sheet inversion device, the pressing faces of the pressing guide members have the same arced shape as have the outer circumferential faces of the inversion rollers.