US 12,174,573 B2
Conveyance apparatus and printing apparatus
Hisashi Taniguchi, Kanagawa (JP); and Motoyuki Taguchi, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jan. 26, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/584,947.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-011677 (JP), filed on Jan. 28, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0236684 A1, Jul. 28, 2022
Int. Cl. B65H 7/02 (2006.01); B65H 5/36 (2006.01); B65H 7/14 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 15/657 (2013.01) [B65H 5/36 (2013.01); B65H 7/02 (2013.01); B65H 7/14 (2013.01); G03G 15/6529 (2013.01); G03G 15/70 (2013.01); B65H 2402/441 (2013.01); B65H 2404/725 (2013.01); B65H 2511/51 (2013.01); B65H 2511/528 (2013.01); B65H 2553/61 (2013.01); B65H 2553/83 (2013.01); B65H 2801/06 (2013.01); G03G 2215/00717 (2013.01); G03G 2215/00721 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A conveyance apparatus comprising:
a first guide that is fixed to a main body;
a second guide attachable to the main body so as to form, together with the first guide, a conveyance path through which a printing medium is conveyed, and removable from the main body so as to open the conveyance path;
a first lever that is provided in the main body and which contacts the printing medium existing in the conveyance path;
a second lever that selectively shields light; and
a switching portion configured to move between a contact position of being in contact with the first lever in a case in which the second guide is removed from the main body and a non-contact position of not being in contact with the first lever in a case in which the second guide is attached to the main body,
wherein the first lever and the second lever swing integrally in a case in which the switching portion is in the non-contact position and the first lever swings with respect to the second lever in a case in which the switching portion is in the contact position.