US 11,870,963 B2
Image forming apparatus
Fumiharu Nakayama, Yokohama Kanagawa (JP); Takashi Tomiyama, Sunto Shizuoka (JP); Yuki Koike, Sunto Shizuoka (JP); and Toshihiro Imai, Sunto Shizuoka (JP)
Assigned to Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Aug. 22, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/892,795.
Application 17/892,795 is a continuation of application No. 17/241,807, filed on Apr. 27, 2021, granted, now 11,457,119.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-136943 (JP), filed on Aug. 14, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0400185 A1, Dec. 15, 2022
Int. Cl. H04N 1/32 (2006.01); H01Q 1/22 (2006.01); H01Q 15/24 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 1/32138 (2013.01) [H01Q 1/2208 (2013.01); H01Q 15/246 (2013.01); H04N 1/00411 (2013.01); H04N 1/00482 (2013.01); H04N 1/00602 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sheet conveying apparatus, comprising:
a sheet conveyance unit configured to transport a sheet along a conveyance path; and
an antenna configured to emit a first linearly polarized radio wave and a second linearly polarized radio wave towards the conveyance path, the first linearly polarized radio wave and the second linearly polarized radio wave are different in wave polarization directions.