CONVEYING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make it possible to detect a step in a recording medium conveyance direction of a recording medium by using a load on driving means driving conveying means that conveys the recording medium.SOLUTION: An image forming apparatus 10 comprises: alignment rollers 68 that convey,...

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Main Authors NAKAO JINSUKE, HARUHARA TAKESHI, CHIBA TAKAHITO
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Japanese
Published 08.06.2017
Subjects
CINEMATOGRAPHY
ELECTROGRAPHY
ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY
HOLOGRAPHY
MAGNETOGRAPHY
PHOTOGRAPHY
PHYSICS
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Summary:PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make it possible to detect a step in a recording medium conveyance direction of a recording medium by using a load on driving means driving conveying means that conveys the recording medium.SOLUTION: An image forming apparatus 10 comprises: alignment rollers 68 that convey, while sandwiching, a recording medium P on which an image is formed; and driving means that drives the alignment rollers 68, and when detecting a peak value of a load on the driving means from entrance of the recording medium P into the alignment rollers 68 until ejection of the recording medium P, detects that the recording P has a step along a conveyance direction of the recording medium P.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】記録媒体を搬送する搬送手段を駆動する駆動手段の負荷を用いて、記録媒体における記録媒体の搬送方向の段差を検出することを可能とする。【解決手段】画像形成装置１０は、画像が形成される記録媒体Ｐを挟んで搬送する位置合わせロール６８と、位置合わせロール６８を駆動する駆動手段と、を備え、記録媒体Ｐが位置合わせロール６８に突入した後から排出される前までに駆動手段の負荷のピーク値を検出した場合に、記録媒体Ｐが記録媒体Ｐの搬送方向に沿った段差を有すると検出する。【選択図】図１
Bibliography:Application Number: JP20160169879