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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2010
Filed:
May. 29, 2007
Naoyuki Okamoto, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroyuki Watase, Yokohama, JP;
Masayuki Ueda, Tokyo, JP;
Kenji Ueda, Kawasaki, JP;
Yasuhiro Sagawa, Yamato, JP;
Hiroshi Kajiyama, Yokohama, JP;
Yoshikuni Ishikawa, Tokyo, JP;
Naoyuki Okamoto, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroyuki Watase, Yokohama, JP;
Masayuki Ueda, Tokyo, JP;
Kenji Ueda, Kawasaki, JP;
Yasuhiro Sagawa, Yamato, JP;
Hiroshi Kajiyama, Yokohama, JP;
Yoshikuni Ishikawa, Tokyo, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An easy-to-use, inexpensive, and small sheet conveying device, which can stably and separately convey not only sheets of a fixed size that are normally used, but also highly rigid sheets and special sheets, and can further separately convey a bent sheet reliably. In a sheet conveying path switching device having a sheet carrying-in path and a switching separating nail, outlines of two separating/conveying paths out of a plurality of separating/conveying paths positioned on a downstream side of the switching separating nail are configured by a movable belt surface, the two separating/conveying paths being located closer to the separating nail than the other separating/conveying paths.