- Patent Title: Curl correcting device and image forming apparatus including this
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Application No.: US15176371Application Date: 2016-06-08
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Publication No.: US09772594B2Publication Date: 2017-09-26
- Inventor: Toshiyuki Hamada
- 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: JP2015-122803 20150618
- Main IPC: G03G15/00
- IPC: G03G15/00 ; G03G21/00 ; B41J11/00

Abstract:
A curl correcting device includes a pair of fixed guides and a change-over guide. The pair of fixed guides composes a curved part of a conveyance path. The change-over guide is provided to be contactable with a sheet from a radial outer side of the curved part. An outer guide includes a pair of side pressing parts and a bulge part. The pair of side pressing parts is formed at both ends in a width direction. The bulge part is formed between the pair of side pressing parts so as to bulge toward the radial outer side of the curved part. The change-over guide is configured to move to a first correcting position when the sheet curled along the conveyance direction is conveyed through the conveyance path and to move to a second correcting position when the sheet curled along the width direction is conveyed through the conveyance path.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160370749A1 CURL CORRECTING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THIS Public/Granted day:2016-12-22
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