Patent ID: 8608165

Claim:
A sheet conveyance device comprising: an upstream rotary member and a downstream rotary member; an endless rotatable conveyance belt, stretched over the upstream rotary member and the downstream rotary member, to convey a sheet of recording media thereon in a predetermined conveyance direction; a conveyance guide including an upper guide plate and a lower guide plate disposed downstream of the conveyance belt in the predetermined conveyance direction and across a gap from the conveyance belt, to guide the sheet between the upper guide plate and the lower guide plate to a predetermined conveyance position; and a guide member adjacent to the lower guide plate of the conveyance guide to guide the sheet from the gap between the conveyance belt and the conveyance guide and onto the conveyance belt, so that the sheet is conveyed from the downstream rotary member to the upstream rotary member, wherein the lower guide plate is below the upper guide plate between the upper guide plate and an end of the guide member that is below the lower guide plate, wherein the guide member includes a straight portion that extends in a direction opposite to the predetermined conveyance direction and parallel to a lower side of the endless rotatable conveyance belt from the end of the guide member to a location at least between the downstream rotary member and the upstream rotary member, wherein the gap extends between the lower guide plate and the conveyance belt, and wherein the end of the guide member is angled in a direction away from the lower guide plate and the end of the guide member extends across the gap below the lower guide plate in the predetermined conveyance direction.