US 12,280,980 B2
Sheet transporting device and image forming apparatus
Yoshinori Koike, Kanagawa (JP); Nobuhiro Hiroe, Kanagawa (JP); Hirotake Eguchi, Kanagawa (JP); Koji Deguchi, Kanagawa (JP); Yasunobu Goto, Kanagawa (JP); Natsumi Nakata, Kanagawa (JP); Yoshiki Matsuzaki, Kanagawa (JP); and Kiyoshi Watanabe, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Sep. 13, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/943,945.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-052974 (JP), filed on Mar. 29, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0312282 A1, Oct. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. B65H 5/06 (2006.01)
CPC B65H 5/062 (2013.01) [B65H 2402/441 (2013.01); B65H 2404/15212 (2013.01); B65H 2801/06 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sheet transporting device comprising:
a pair of transporting rolls in a sheet transport path;
a separating component comprising a plate and handle configured to move one of transporting rolls that form the pair of transporting rolls to an open position where the one of the transporting rolls is spaced apart from another of the transporting rolls, wherein the plate is configured to pivot around a first side of the plate and the handle is on a second side of the plate opposite the first side of the plate; and
a switching component comprising
an eccentric cam on a different side of the separating component from the one of transporting rolls that moves to the open position, and
an acting arm on a same side of the separating component as the one of transporting rolls that moves to the open position; wherein
the eccentric cam and the acting arm are configured to
switch a position of the pair of transporting rolls between a nipping position and an unnipping position, and
resume switching when the pair of transporting rolls, after being moved to the open position by the separating component, is returned to a normal operating position; and
the eccentric cam has an axial length that allows the acting arm to slide along the axial length and maintain contact with the eccentric cam in the open position.