US 11,856,168 B2
Sheet conveyance apparatus and image forming apparatus
Harumitsu Fujimori, Toyokawa (JP); Shota Igo, Toyokawa (JP); Naoto Sugaya, Hachioji (JP); and Kenji Tamaki, Tokorozawa (JP)
Assigned to Konica Minolta, Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Konica Minolta, Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Apr. 29, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/732,607.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-083299 (JP), filed on May 17, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0368807 A1, Nov. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. H04N 1/00 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 1/00986 (2013.01) [G03G 15/6529 (2013.01); H04N 1/00037 (2013.01); H04N 1/00602 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sheet conveyance apparatus comprising:
a speed detection roller that detects a conveyance speed of a sheet, the speed detection roller being driven to rotate by coming into contact with the sheet being conveyed and by receiving a rotational force from the sheet being conveyed; and
a hardware processor that performs temperature control to make an ambient temperature of the speed detection roller a predetermined temperature.