US 11,693,348 B2
Image forming apparatus
Yasuhiro Kawasaki, Kanagawa (JP); and Yohei Suzuki, Shizuoka (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jul. 1, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/365,894.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-119404 (JP), filed on Jul. 10, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0011707 A1, Jan. 13, 2022
Int. Cl. G03G 15/00 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 15/6529 (2013.01) 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet;
a conveyance guide unit configured to convey the sheet on which the image is to be formed by the image forming unit; and
a conveyance unit configured to convey the sheet toward a first conveyance guide unit,
wherein the conveyance guide unit includes an urging member, a rotary member configured to be urged by the urging member and to rotate while abutting the sheet, a holding unit holding the urging member and the rotary member, and the first conveyance guide unit that is detachably attached to the holding unit to guide the sheet, and
wherein the first conveyance guide unit includes a pressed portion, and the pressed portion is to be pressed by the sheet conveyed by the conveyance unit and has strength less than strength of the holding unit.