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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 05, 2002
Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
An image forming device in which, even if exposure processing and developing processing are carried out simultaneously, offset at a time of scanning-exposure in an exposure section, which is caused by relatively rough conveying in a developing section, can be eliminated. Attention is focused on rigidity of a sheet-shaped recording material. A guide plate of a conveying section is bent such that elastic repulsion is generated, and a predetermined frictional force with respect to a driving roller is generated by the elastic repulsion. Thus, even if the driving roller vibrates due to an external disturbance or non-uniform driving occurs, vibration or the like can be absorbed by movement of the recording material in a thickness direction thereof. Thus, conveying of the recording material is not directly affected, and conveying can be stabilized. Therefore, the developing section and the exposure section can be disposed near one another, and in particular, a time required until a first print is obtained can be shortened.