US 11,899,384 B2
Transportation device, fixing device, and image forming apparatus
Masato Yamashita, Kanagawa (JP); Yoshiki Shimodaira, Kanagawa (JP); Kosuke Yamada, Kanagawa (JP); Tetsuro Kodera, Kanagawa (JP); Mitsuhiro Matsumoto, Kanagawa (JP); and Takayuki Yamashita, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Sep. 3, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/465,869.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-150740 (JP), filed on Sep. 8, 2020; and application No. 2021-112907 (JP), filed on Jul. 7, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0075299 A1, Mar. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. G03G 15/20 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 15/2028 (2013.01) 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A transportation device, comprising:
a first transporter;
a second transporter movable toward and away from the first transporter between a contact position and a separate position to hold a to-be-transported object between the second transporter and the first transporter in the contact position; and
a transportation unit that transports the to-be-transported object along the first transporter to a nip area where the first transporter and the second transporter hold the to-be-transported object therebetween while the second transporter is located in the separate position,
wherein the second transporter is arranged on a side of a surface having an unfixed image transferred to the to-be-transported object, and moves from the separate position to the contact position, in a state where the to-be-transported object transported to the nip area by the transportation unit is in contact with and held by the first transporter, to hold the to-be-transported object between the second transporter and the first transporter to transport the to-be-transported object.