Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Conveyance unit and image forming apparatus including this
-
Application No.: US15064978Application Date: 2016-03-09
-
Publication No.: US09725261B2Publication Date: 2017-08-08
- Inventor: Keisuke Mizuguchi
- Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Current Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Studebaker & Brackett PC
- Priority: JP2015-050333 20150313
- Main IPC: B65H1/10
- IPC: B65H1/10 ; B65H1/12 ; B65H1/26 ; B65H3/06 ; B65H3/56 ; G03G15/00

Abstract:
A conveyance unit includes a cassette removably attached to an apparatus body and a conveyance interlocked part provided in the apparatus body. The cassette includes a sheet storage part for storing a sheet, a lift plate liftably provided between a lowered position and a raised position and a biasing member for biasing the sheet to contact with a pickup roller. The conveyance interlocked part includes a lever for engaging with the lift plate when the cassette is attached to the apparatus body and being liftable together with the lift plate, a pressing mechanism for pressing the lever downward, and a support member provided between the apparatus body and the lever so as to suppress a drop of the lever disengaged from the lift plate when the cassette is detached from the apparatus body.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160264367A1 CONVEYANCE UNIT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THIS Public/Granted day:2016-09-15
Information query