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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2007
Shinji Maruyama, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Shinji Maruyama, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A sheet transport technique of clamping and transporting a sheet by a roller and a belt abutted against the roller, the technique capable of suppressing shift of the belt in the rotation axis direction of the roller without hindering downsizing of the apparatus is provided. A sheet transport apparatus is made up of a rollerbeing formed with a tubular cavity having a predetermined length in a rotation direction and covered with an elastic body on the outer periphery in the rotation radius direction of the cavity and a belt unitfor abutting a beltof a width narrower than the width of the cavity in the rotation axis direction of the rolleragainst the roller face of the rollerso that it is positioned inside the range in which the cavity is formed in the rotation axis direction of the rollerand sandwiching a sheetbetween the beltand the rollerand transporting the sheet.
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