US 11,921,445 B2
Transport 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 Dec. 3, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/541,270.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-137613 (JP), filed on Aug. 25, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0063255 A1, Mar. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. G03G 15/20 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 15/2028 (2013.01) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A transport device comprising:
a first transport body;
a second transport body that is movable between a contact position and a separate position with respect to the first transport body and that nips a transported material with the first transport body at the contact position; and
a transport section that includes a holder to hold a leading end portion of the transported material and that transports the transported material toward a nip region where the first transport body and the second transport body nip the transported material in a state in which the second transport body is located at the separate position,
wherein, the second transport body is arranged on a side of a surface having an unfixed image transferred to the transported material, after holding of the leading end portion by the holder for the transported material transported by the transport section has been released in a state where the transported material is restored from having a cockle, the second transport body nips the transported material with the first transport body and transports the transported material.