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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2009
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2009
Hironori Ogasawara, Yamato-Koriyama, JP;
Yasumasa Morimoto, Kashihara, JP;
Masato Tamehira, Nara, JP;
Yoshinori Shiraishi, Tenri, JP;
Hironori Ogasawara, Yamato-Koriyama, JP;
Yasumasa Morimoto, Kashihara, JP;
Masato Tamehira, Nara, JP;
Yoshinori Shiraishi, Tenri, JP;
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A sheet carrying device has a mechanism that prevents a sheet from being fed backward into a carriage path after once discharged from the device, and the sheet carrying device includes a carriage surface that guides a sheet, a reverse roller attached to a rotation shaft of a sheet discharging portion, whose rotation direction is switchable between forward and backward, and a backward-feed prevention valve that prevents an edge of a discharged sheet from entering into a nip portion of the reverse roller, and the backward-feed prevention valve includes a resin sheet and an elastic member disposed at one end on the sheet discharging side of the resin sheet, and the elastic member has one surface supported by the rotation shaft of the reverse roller and the other surface pressing the resin sheet against the carriage surface.