US 12,351,420 B2
Conveyance device, drying device, image forming apparatus, and liquid discharge apparatus
Kohki Asada, Tokyo (JP); Kenji Nozawa, Kanagawa (JP); Genichiroh Kawamichi, Ibaraki (JP); Takayuki Seki, Kanagawa (JP); Kazuaki Kamihara, Tokyo (JP); and Ryusaku Hida, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Kohki Asada, Tokyo (JP); Kenji Nozawa, Kanagawa (JP); Genichiroh Kawamichi, Ibaraki (JP); Takayuki Seki, Kanagawa (JP); Kazuaki Kamihara, Tokyo (JP); and Ryusaku Hida, Kanagawa (JP)
Filed on Sep. 18, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/369,235.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-149225 (JP), filed on Sep. 20, 2022; and application No. 2023-116749 (JP), filed on Jul. 18, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0092595 A1, Mar. 21, 2024
Int. Cl. B65H 5/02 (2006.01); B41J 11/00 (2006.01); B65H 5/36 (2006.01)
CPC B65H 5/021 (2013.01) [B41J 11/00214 (2021.01); B41J 11/0024 (2021.01); B41J 11/007 (2013.01); B65H 5/36 (2013.01); B65H 2301/517 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A conveyance device, comprising:
a conveyance member having a conveyance surface with a joint, the conveyance member to convey an object to be conveyed, with the object on the conveyance surface;
a guide to approach the conveyance surface and guide the object from or to the conveyance member; and
a rotator to contact the conveyance surface,
the guide to displace in a direction perpendicular to the conveyance surface, in conjunction with displacement of the rotator when the rotator contacts the joint.