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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2015
Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Tomohisa Soda, Osaka, JP;
Kazuhisa Kondo, Osaka, JP;
KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A conveyor device is mounted on an image forming apparatus having an image forming section. The conveyor device has: a first conveyance path for conveying the sheet after an image is formed on a side of a sheet by the image forming section; a reverse conveyance path branched from the first conveyance path; a second conveyance path branched from the reverse conveyance path and for conveying the sheet back to the image forming section. The conveyor device includes a reversing section and a decurling section that are disposed on the reverse conveyance path. The reversing section reverses a conveyance direction of the sheet fed into the reverse conveyance path so as to feed the sheet into the second conveyance path. The decurling section applies decurling by urging the sheet in a direction of forming a convex curl with a side opposite to the image-formed side facing outward.