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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 01, 2014
Mitsutaka Nakamura, Hyogo, JP;
Masanori Namba, Kanagawa, JP;
Toshikane Nishii, Osaka, JP;
Haruyuki Honda, Kanagawa, JP;
Munekazu Hirata, Osaka, JP;
Mitsutaka Nakamura, Hyogo, JP;
Masanori Namba, Kanagawa, JP;
Toshikane Nishii, Osaka, JP;
Haruyuki Honda, Kanagawa, JP;
Munekazu Hirata, Osaka, JP;
RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A sheet conveyor, which is incorporated in an image forming apparatus and in which a method of preventing sheet skew is performed, includes a sheet conveying path through which a sheet is conveyed, a first conveying unit disposed in a sheet conveying direction and including a shaft extending in a lateral direction, multiple rollers attached to the shaft along the shaft, and a rotation regulator disposed between each of the multiple rollers and the shaft to idly rotate each of the multiple rollers in a given range about the shaft, a second conveying unit disposed along the sheet conveying path and downstream from the first conveying unit in the sheet conveying direction, and a sheet abutting part provided at the second conveying unit, against which a leading edge of the sheet abuts to form a slack of the sheet to correct skew of the sheet.