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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2011
Takehito Osada, Suntou-gun, JP;
Minoru Kawanishi, Yokohama, JP;
Kenji Watanabe, Suntou-gun, JP;
Motohiro Furusawa, Suntou-gun, JP;
Takehito Osada, Suntou-gun, JP;
Minoru Kawanishi, Yokohama, JP;
Kenji Watanabe, Suntou-gun, JP;
Motohiro Furusawa, Suntou-gun, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A sheet conveying apparatus including: a conveying roller pair conveying a sheet by a nip portion; a shutter portion which is rotatably supported on a rotary shaft of the first conveying roller; a same radius portion, provided in the shutter portion, which is formed to have substantially the same radius as a radius of the first conveying roller; an abutment portion, provided in the shutter portion, and against which the leading edge of the sheet is abutted; and a boundary portion, provided in a boundary of the abutment portion and the same radius portion, which guides the leading edge of the sheet to the nip portion when the shutter portion is rotated by abutting the leading edge of the sheet against the boundary portion.