US 11,891,271 B2
Sheet conveying apparatus
Toshiyuki Iwata, Tokyo (JP); Hiroshi Mochizuki, Yamanashi-ken (JP); Tsukasa Kondo, Yamanashi-ken (JP); Tetsuya Kawasaki, Yamanashi-ken (JP); and Yuuki Kubota, Yamanashi-ken (JP)
Assigned to CANON FINETECH NISCA INC., Misato (JP)
Filed by Toshiyuki Iwata, Tokyo (JP); Hiroshi Mochizuki, Yamanashi-ken (JP); Tsukasa Kondo, Yamanashi-ken (JP); Tetsuya Kawasaki, Yamanashi-ken (JP); and Yuuki Kubota, Yamanashi-ken (JP)
Filed on Aug. 25, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/411,522.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-144617 (JP), filed on Aug. 28, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0063946 A1, Mar. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. B65H 9/16 (2006.01); B65H 5/02 (2006.01); B65H 5/06 (2006.01); G03G 15/23 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01); B65H 9/10 (2006.01)
CPC B65H 9/163 (2013.01) [B65H 5/025 (2013.01); B65H 5/062 (2013.01); B65H 9/101 (2013.01); B65H 9/166 (2013.01); G03G 15/23 (2013.01); G03G 15/6529 (2013.01); B65H 2511/528 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sheet conveying apparatus comprising:
a first conveying member configured to convey a sheet in a predetermined conveying direction;
an endless conveying belt provided downstream relative to the first conveying member in the conveying direction, the belt having a conveying surface extending in the conveying direction and conveying, in the conveying direction, the sheet passed from the first conveying member;
a plurality of balls arranged in the conveying direction so as to face the conveying surface and configured to be rotatable in any direction while nipping the sheet with the conveying surface;
a second conveying member provided downstream relative to the conveying belt in the conveying direction and configured to convey the sheet passed from the conveying belt; and
a take-out port provided on one side relative to the conveying belt in a sheet width direction crossing the conveying direction and through which a sheet stopped on the conveying belt is taken out, wherein
when a sheet is stopped in a state of being spanned by the conveying belt and the first conveying member, or by the conveying belt and the second conveying member, the first and second conveying members and the conveying belt are operated such that the sheet is located at a position where it is nipped only by the conveying belt and the balls so as to allow the sheet to be taken out through the take-out port.