Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus
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Application No.: US16032802Application Date: 2018-07-11
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Publication No.: US10511735B2Publication Date: 2019-12-17
- Inventor: Yoshiteru Kawakami , Yasuo Shiokawa , Takahiro Okubo
- Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
- Applicant Address: JP Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo
- Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
- Current Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo
- Agency: Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
- Priority: JP2017-136753 20170713; JP2017-158970 20170822
- Main IPC: H04N1/00
- IPC: H04N1/00 ; B41J3/60 ; B65H5/02

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image former, a conveyance path, a flipping conveyance path, a conveying mechanism and a hardware processor. The flipping conveyance path includes a side path connecting a first branch point in a downstream of the conveyance path to a junction in an upstream of the conveyance path and a re-feeding path connecting a second branch point in the side path to a re-feeding point in an upstream of the conveyance path. The hardware processor controls the conveying mechanism to perform (i) a conveyance operation to convey the sheet along the conveyance path, (ii) a draw-in operation to draw the sheet with the image into the side path, and (iii) a re-feeding operation to convey the sheet in a reverse direction to re-feed the flipped sheet from the re-feeding point to the conveyance path.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190020777A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2019-01-17
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