US 12,153,366 B2
Recording material conveyance device and image forming system
Satoshi Ogata, Hachioji (JP); and Masashi Sugano, Machida (JP)
Assigned to KONICA MINOLTA, INC., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by KONICA MINOLTA, INC., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on May 22, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/200,160.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-098590 (JP), filed on Jun. 20, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0408960 A1, Dec. 21, 2023
Int. Cl. G03G 15/00 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 15/5029 (2013.01) 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A recording material conveyance device comprising:
a first conveyor that constitutes a conveyance route for a recording material;
a second conveyor and a third conveyor that branch off from the first conveyor and constitute the conveyance route for the recording material on a downstream side of a recording material conveyance direction of the first conveyor;
a first detector that detects recording material characteristics of the recording material disposed in the first conveyor;
a second detector that detects the recording material characteristics disposed in the second conveyor; and
a controller that stops the detection by the second detector and discharges the recording material that is being detected by the second detector when the first detector detects an abnormality in a detection result of the recording material characteristics.