Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus
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Application No.: US16829062Application Date: 2020-03-25
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Publication No.: US11119429B2Publication Date: 2021-09-14
- Inventor: Katsuya Nakama
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Venable LLP
- Priority: JPJP2019-072969 20190405
- Main IPC: G03G15/00
- IPC: G03G15/00 ; G03G15/16 ; G03G21/20 ; H04N1/00

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a storage portion to which a heating unit configured to heat the sheet stored in the storage portion is detachably attached, a conveyance unit, a detection unit configured to detect attachment of the heating unit to the storage portion, and a control unit configured to control the conveyance unit such that a standby time by which conveyance of the sheet fed from the storage portion is stopped is shorter when the detection unit detects the heating unit than when the detection unit does not detect the heating unit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200322496A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2020-10-08
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