	US 12,187,569 B2
	Medium transport device and image forming apparatus
Yusuke Itozaki, Kanagawa (JP); Makio Uehara, Kanagawa (JP); Toshitaka Tanaka, Kanagawa (JP); Hiroyuki Momiyama, Kanagawa (JP); and Masashi Matsumoto, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Sep. 21, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/949,658.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-052726 (JP), filed on Mar. 29, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0312295 A1, Oct. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. B65H 5/36 (2006.01); B65H 29/12 (2006.01); B65H 29/60 (2006.01); B65H 43/00 (2006.01); B65H 85/00 (2006.01)

CPC B65H 5/36 (2013.01) [B65H 29/125 (2013.01); B65H 29/60 (2013.01); B65H 43/00 (2013.01); B65H 85/00 (2013.01); B65H 2301/3423 (2013.01); B65H 2404/612 (2013.01); B65H 2404/693 (2013.01); B65H 2515/34 (2013.01)]

17 Claims

1. A medium transport device comprising:

a guide configured to guide a medium on which an image is recorded, and curved along a transport direction of the medium; and

an actuator configured to actuate the guide between a contact position where the guide is in contact with the medium and a separation position where the guide is separated from the medium,

wherein the guide is configured to move to the contact position until a leading edge of the medium in the transport direction passes along the guide, and move to the separation position after the leading edge of the medium in the transport direction has passed along the guide,

wherein the guide is disposed in a reversing path along which a medium having an image formed on a first side is transported to reverse sides of the medium and form another image on a second side, and

wherein the guide is configured to face the first side.