US 11,814,259 B2
Sheet conveyance apparatus and image scanning apparatus
Takayuki Suga, Tokyo (JP); and Takuya Yamaguchi, Chiba (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jan. 11, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/146,246.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-019177 (JP), filed on Feb. 6, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0245981 A1, Aug. 12, 2021
Int. Cl. B65H 5/06 (2006.01); B65H 5/38 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC B65H 5/068 (2013.01) [H04N 1/00559 (2013.01); H04N 1/00591 (2013.01); H04N 1/00615 (2013.01); B65H 2404/15 (2013.01); B65H 2404/19 (2013.01); B65H 2801/39 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sheet conveyance apparatus comprising:
a conveyance unit configured to convey a sheet;
a conveyance guide configured to guide the sheet conveyed by the conveyance unit;
a driven rotary member configured to be driven to rotate by the conveyed sheet, wherein the driven rotary member protrudes downward from the conveyance guide; and
a support portion configured to support a shaft portion of the driven rotary member,
wherein the support portion includes a first plane portion and a second plane portion that are in contact with the shaft portion, and the first plane portion and the second plane portion each slope toward a downstream side in a conveyance direction so as to become closer to a conveyance path of the sheet,
wherein, as viewed in an axial direction of the shaft portion, the first plane portion is in contact with the shaft portion on a downstream side in the conveyance direction relative to a center of the shaft portion and above the center of the shaft portion in a vertical direction, and
wherein, as viewed in the axial direction of the shaft portion, the second plane portion is in contact with the shaft portion on an upstream side in the conveyance direction relative to the center of the shaft portion and below the center of the shaft portion in the vertical direction.