Patent ID: 8805269

Claim:
A conveying device comprising: a conveying member that conveys a body to be conveyed; a sensor that is disposed at a position adjacent to a conveying path of the body to be conveyed and detects the body to be conveyed; and a cleaner housing that is disposed on a downstream side of the sensor, wherein the sensor includes: a light emitting part that emits light, a light receiving part that receives reflected light, which is emitted from the light emitting part, is reflected, and returns, and a plurality of fiber bodies that are disposed on a front side of at least one of the light emitting part and the light receiving part and operate as a filter limiting an emission angle or a light receiving angle, wherein the plurality of fiber bodies are woven into a mesh, wherein the light emitting part is configured to incline at a first inclination angle and the light receiving part is configured to incline at a second inclination angle such that the light emitting part and the light receiving part are aimed at different portions of the cleaner housing, and wherein the first inclination angle and the second inclination angle are different inclination angles.