Patent ID: 8523347
Filing Date: 2013-09-03
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
1. A sheet conveyance device installed in an image forming apparatus having an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet member, the sheet conveyance device comprising: an ejecting/inverting path that functions as an ejecting path configured to eject, without reversing a leading edge and a trailing edge of the sheet member, the sheet member having the image formed thereon by the image forming unit outside the image forming apparatus by conveying the sheet member in an ejecting direction in which the sheet member is ejected, the ejecting/inverting path also functioning as an inverting path configured to reverse the leading edge and the trailing edge of the sheet member by conveying the sheet member in a direction opposite to the ejecting direction; and an inverted-sheet directly ejecting path configured to eject the sheet member, the leading edge and the trailing edge of the sheet member being reversed in the ejecting/inverting path, outside the image forming apparatus without passing the sheet member through the image forming unit by conveying the sheet member in the direction opposite to the ejecting direction.