US 12,280,976 B2
Sheet conveyance apparatus and image forming system
Hiroyuki Yamano, Kanagawa (JP); Hiroharu Tsuji, Shizuoka (JP); and Koji Miwa, Shizuoka (JP)
Assigned to CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Apr. 14, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/134,714.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-075403 (JP), filed on Apr. 28, 2022; application No. 2022-092796 (JP), filed on Jun. 8, 2022; application No. 2022-092797 (JP), filed on Jun. 8, 2022; and application No. 2023-054938 (JP), filed on Mar. 30, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2023/0348220 A1, Nov. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. B65H 29/60 (2006.01)
CPC B65H 29/60 (2013.01) [B65H 2301/5144 (2013.01); B65H 2404/14 (2013.01); B65H 2406/40 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sheet conveyance apparatus configured to be connected to an image forming apparatus configured to form an image on a sheet, and a sheet processing apparatus configured to subject the sheet to a processing, the sheet conveyance apparatus being arranged on an upper face portion of the image forming apparatus and configured to receive the sheet from the image forming apparatus and convey the sheet to the sheet processing apparatus, the sheet conveyance apparatus comprising:
a conveyance path including a first path through which the sheet is conveyed toward the sheet processing apparatus and a second path branched from the first path;
a switching guide configured to switch a conveyance route of the sheet between the first path and the second path;
an air blowing unit arranged on a lower portion of the sheet conveyance apparatus and configured to send air toward the conveyance path;
an air intake port provided on an end portion on a front side of the sheet conveyance apparatus;
a duct configured to connect the air intake port and the air blowing unit; and
an air blowing port configured to blow the air from the air blowing unit to the conveyance path,
wherein the air blowing port is arranged upstream of the switching guide in a sheet conveyance direction of the first path and configured to blow the air toward a downstream side in the sheet conveyance direction.