Photosensitive Material Conveying System and Image Forming Apparatus
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- US · United States
- Current Assignee / Owner
- KONICA MINOLTA MEDICAL & GRAPHICS INC
- Publication Date
- 2009-05-28
- Estimated Expiration
- Not applicable · inactive patent
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Abstract
Description
TECHNICAL FIELD
[0001] The present invention relates to photosensitive material conveying systems that feed out using a feeding out roller a plurality of photosensitive sheet films that have been stacked, and to image forming apparatuses.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0002] Thermal development apparatuses are known that execute a thermal development process of forming latent images on a sheet film made of a thermal development photosensitive material and making the images visible by developing using an application of heat, and sheet films stored in a storage container inside a thermal development apparatus are picked up for conveying and supplying the sheet films to the downstream side. In order to pick up such sheet films, although conventionally the suction cup method is used for lifting up the sheet films while adhering to them by vacuum suction, in this suction cup method, the time taken for picking up becomes long, and hence cannot be selected from the point of view of speedy process...