US 12,122,152 B2
Conveyor and liquid discharge apparatus
Junichi Terai, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Junichi Terai, Kanagawa (JP)
Filed on Oct. 6, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/960,834.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-187114 (JP), filed on Nov. 17, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0150282 A1, May 18, 2023
Int. Cl. B41J 15/04 (2006.01); B41J 11/00 (2006.01); B41J 19/20 (2006.01); B65H 7/14 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01); B65H 5/06 (2006.01); B65H 7/08 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 15/048 (2013.01) [B41J 11/0095 (2013.01); B41J 19/205 (2013.01); B65H 7/14 (2013.01); H04N 1/00702 (2013.01); B41J 2203/011 (2020.08); B65H 5/06 (2013.01); B65H 7/08 (2013.01); B65H 2402/30 (2013.01); B65H 2402/60 (2013.01); B65H 2553/42 (2013.01); B65H 2553/80 (2013.01); B65H 2801/06 (2013.01); G03G 15/5029 (2013.01); G03G 15/6517 (2013.01); G03G 2215/00721 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A conveyor, comprising:
a conveyance roller configured to convey a conveyed object;
a pair of roller supports opposing to each other and supporting both ends of the conveyance roller in an axial direction of the conveyance roller;
a position sensor configured to detect a position of the conveyed object; and
a sensor support supporting the position sensor, wherein
each roller support of the pair of roller supports has an insertion hole into which the sensor support is inserted,
the sensor support is positioned:
by the insertion hole in a direction intersecting an insertion direction of the sensor support,
with respect to one roller support of the pair of roller supports only in the direction intersecting the insertion direction, and
by an end of the sensor support, with respect to another roller support of the pair of roller supports, in the insertion direction, a direction opposite to the insertion direction, and a rotational direction about an axis along the insertion direction,
the insertion hole of the one roller support of the pair of roller supports has a circular cross section, and
the insertion hole of the other roller support of the pair of roller supports has a non-circular cross section.