摘要 |
<p>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce damage that a conveyance guide gives to a sheet and to prevent a defect in transfer and a defect in fixation of toner to the sheet since pressure of contact between the sheet and conveyance guide in a curved area of a form conveyance path.SOLUTION: A sheet guide device (10) includes an external conveyance guide 74 and an internal conveyance guide (76) which form a sheet conveyance path (S) in an image formation apparatus (100). The external conveyance guide 74 has a first conveyance part 78 arranged in a curved area C of the form conveyance path (S) and a second conveyance part 80 arranged in a non-curved area L. Then the external conveyance guide 74 is so formed as to have larger area of contact with a sheet, conveyed in the sheet conveyance path (S), per unit length in a sheet conveying direction at the first conveyance part 78 than at the second conveyance part 80.</p> |