US 12,479,218 B2
Recording material conveying device and image forming system
Masayuki Fukunaga, Nagareyama (JP); and Satoshi Ogata, Hachioji (JP)
Assigned to Konica Minolta, Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Konica Minolta, Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jun. 2, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/205,060.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-098588 (JP), filed on Jun. 20, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0406011 A1, Dec. 21, 2023
Int. Cl. B65H 29/62 (2006.01); B41J 11/42 (2006.01); B65H 7/06 (2006.01); B65H 29/60 (2006.01); B65H 43/04 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 11/42 (2013.01) [B65H 7/06 (2013.01); B65H 29/60 (2013.01); B65H 29/62 (2013.01); B65H 43/04 (2013.01); G03G 15/5029 (2013.01); G03G 15/6591 (2013.01); B65H 2513/42 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A recording material conveying device comprising:
a first conveyor that conveys a recording material supplied from a recording material supply part;
a second conveyor that branches from the first conveyor and conveys the recording material without passing through an image forming part;
a third conveyor that branches from the first conveyor and conveys the recording material via the image forming part; and
a detector that detects a recording material characteristic of the recording material, the detector including a first detector arranged in the second conveyor, wherein
the recording material whose recording material characteristic has been detected by the detector can be ejected from the second conveyor.