Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus and feeding device
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Application No.: US15453647Application Date: 2017-03-08
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Publication No.: US09944480B2Publication Date: 2018-04-17
- Inventor: Yuya Hirano , Fumiaki Mizuno , Yuta Hojo , Atsushi Kawarago
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Canon U.S.A., Inc. IP Division
- Priority: JP2016-055761 20160318
- Main IPC: B65H3/06
- IPC: B65H3/06 ; B65H7/12 ; B65H3/52 ; B65H3/02 ; B65H3/46 ; B65H7/20 ; B65H7/06

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an accommodation unit, feeding, conveying, and separating members, and detecting, control, image forming, and regulating units. The conveying member conveys a fed recording material. The separating member forms a nip and separates recording materials. The detecting unit detects that the recording material has been fed to the nip. The feeding member starts feeding an accommodated recording material and, where a recording material is fed to the nip, causes the feeding to be finished. An image is formed on a fed recording material. The regulating unit regulates an end on an upstream side. The control unit measures a period from a recording material feeding to detection that a recording material is fed to the nip. Based on the measured period, information is output indicating that a position of the regulating unit is deviated from a position according to a size of the accommodated recording materials.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170267475A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND FEEDING DEVICE Public/Granted day:2017-09-21
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