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Granted Patent B2
US 12703594 · App. 18/783,600 · Granted Aug 11, 2026

Medium conveying device and image forming apparatus

Inventors: Ryuga Oishi (Kanagawa, JP); Hiroyuki Tamai (Kanagawa, JP); Ryosuke Yamaji (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
B65H5/062G03G15/6529B65H2402/441B65H2402/54B65H2404/142B65H2404/1441
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Patent No.
US 12703594
App. No.
18/783,600
Granted
Aug 11, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

A medium conveying device includes: a first roller that is rotatably supported; a second roller that conveys a recording medium while nipping the recording medium between the first roller and the second roller; a biasing member that biases the first roller toward the second roller; an attachment member to which the first roller, the second roller, and the biasing member are attached, the attachment member being mounted on and dismounted from a main body together with the first roller, the second roller, and the biasing member; and an adjustment member that changes a posture of the biasing member in conjunction with mounting of the attachment member on the main body to adjust a biasing force applied by the biasing member to the first roller.

Claims (32)

1 . A medium conveying device comprising:

a first roller that is rotatably supported;

a second roller that conveys a recording medium while nipping the recording medium between the first roller and the second roller;

a biasing member that biases the first roller toward the second roller;

an attachment member to which the first roller, the second roller, and the biasing member are attached, the attachment member being mounted on and dismounted from a main body together with the first roller, the second roller, and the biasing member; and

an adjustment member that changes a posture of the biasing member in conjunction with mounting of the attachment member on the main body to adjust a biasing force applied by the biasing member to the first roller.

2 . The medium conveying device according to claim 1 , wherein

the biasing member is a torsion spring including a spiral portion having a spiral shape, a first end portion, and a second end portion, the first end portion protrudes from one end of the spiral portion and presses against the first roller, and the second end portion protrudes from another end of the spiral portion, and

the adjustment member includes a shaft portion, a support portion, and a contact portion, the shaft portion extends along an axial direction of the first roller and the spiral portion is wound around the shaft portion, the support portion is attached to the shaft portion and supports the second end portion, and the contact portion is provided in the main body and when the attachment member dismounted from the main body is mounted on the main body, the contact portion comes into contact with the support portion and changes a posture of the support portion to change the posture of the biasing member.

3 . The medium conveying device according to claim 2 , wherein

the support portion is formed with a protruding portion that protrudes in a radial direction of the shaft portion and supports the second end portion, and

the contact portion comes into contact with the protruding portion and changes the posture of the support portion.

4 . An image forming apparatus, comprising:

the medium conveying device according to claim 3 ; and

an image forming section that forms an image on a recording medium conveyed by the medium conveying device.

5 . An image forming apparatus, comprising:

the medium conveying device according to claim 2 ; and

an image forming section that forms an image on a recording medium conveyed by the medium conveying device.

6 . An image forming apparatus, comprising:

the medium conveying device according to claim 1 ; and

an image forming section that forms an image on a recording medium conveyed by the medium conveying device.

7 . The medium conveying device according to claim 1 , wherein

the biasing member is a torsion spring including a spiral portion having a spiral shape and a first end portion, the spiral portion is disposed away from the first roller in an intersecting direction intersecting a biasing direction in which the biasing member biases the first roller when viewed from an axial direction of the first roller, and the first end portion protrudes from one end of the spiral portion and presses against the first roller.

8 . The medium conveying device according to claim 7 , wherein

the biasing member includes a second end portion that protrudes from another end of the spiral portion, and

the adjustment member moves the second end portion in a circumferential direction of the spiral portion to move the spiral portion in the circumferential direction.

9 . An image forming apparatus, comprising:

the medium conveying device according to claim 8 ; and

an image forming section that forms an image on a recording medium conveyed by the medium conveying device.

10 . An image forming apparatus, comprising:

the medium conveying device according to claim 7 ; and

an image forming section that forms an image on a recording medium conveyed by the medium conveying device.