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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 9586777 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2017

Filed:

Feb. 18, 2016

Sheet conveying device and image forming apparatus including the same

Applicant:

Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;

Inventor:

Sachio Izumichi, Osaka, JP;

Assignee:

KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;

Attorney:

Stein IP, LLC

Primary Examiner:

Howard Sanders

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 5/00 (2006.01); B65H 5/36 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01); B65H 5/06 (2006.01); G03G 15/23 (2006.01); B65H 29/58 (2006.01); B65H 85/00 (2006.01); B65H 29/12 (2006.01); B65H 31/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 5/36 (2013.01); B65H 5/062 (2013.01); B65H 29/125 (2013.01); B65H 29/58 (2013.01); B65H 31/24 (2013.01); B65H 85/00 (2013.01); G03G 15/234 (2013.01); G03G 15/6529 (2013.01); B65H 2301/3331 (2013.01); B65H 2301/33312 (2013.01); B65H 2402/5152 (2013.01); B65H 2404/1521 (2013.01); B65H 2404/513 (2013.01); B65H 2404/54 (2013.01); B65H 2404/6111 (2013.01); B65H 2404/63 (2013.01); B65H 2405/3311 (2013.01); B65H 2601/324 (2013.01); B65H 2801/06 (2013.01); G03G 2215/00675 (2013.01);
Abstract

A sheet conveying device includes a switchback unit, a first conveying path, a second conveying path, a switching member, and a convey roller. The first conveying path conveys a sheet to the switchback unit. The second conveying path receives the sheet after the conveying direction is switched by the switchback unit. The switching member rotates about a rotation fulcrum axis extending in a sheet width direction so as to switch between a first attitude for guiding the sheet from the first conveying path to the switchback unit and a second attitude for guiding the sheet from the switchback unit to the second conveying path. The convey roller includes a rotation shaft disposed on the same axis as the rotation fulcrum axis of the switching member and has an outer circumference surface protruding more than a sheet guiding surface of the switching member.

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