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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 12, 2002
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hideaki Miyazawa, Ibaraki, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 5/22 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 5/22 ;
Abstract
A sheet conveying device has a conveyance guide for guiding a sheet conveyed from a photosensitive drum and a transfer roller of a transfer portion to a pressurizing roller and a fixing roller of a fixing device, and the conveyance guide has a second guide surface and a third guide surface, the bending point of the guide surfaces being situated above the intersection of the nip plane of the photosensitive drum and the transfer roller and the nip plane of the pressurizing roller and the fixing roller and in a region on the side opposite to the direction in which the sheet is separated from the conveyance guide with respect to the nip planes.