Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus
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Application No.: US17144726Application Date: 2021-01-08
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Publication No.: US11548749B2Publication Date: 2023-01-10
- Inventor: Yusuke Ikegami , Shintaro Sakaguchi , Toshiyuki Sano
- Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Nagoya
- Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Nagoya
- Agency: Merchant & Gould P.C.
- Priority: JPJP2020-002885 20200110
- Main IPC: B65H29/60
- IPC: B65H29/60 ; B65H7/14 ; G03G15/00 ; G03G21/16 ; B65H5/26 ; B65H85/00

Abstract:
In an image forming apparatus, a sheet is guided into a first conveyor path or a second conveyor path selectively when a first cover is in a closed position, and is ejected onto the first cover when the first cover is in an open position. Upon power-up, a controller causes a first conveyor roller to rotate but if the first cover is in the open position, when a sheet sensor detects a sheet, the controller does not cause a second conveyor roller to rotate, and causes a flapper to swing from a first position to a second position, and when a front end of the sheet reaches a position downstream of an upstream end of the flapper in a conveyance direction of the sheet conveyed by the first conveyor roller, the controller causes the flapper to swing from the second position to the first position.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210214180A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2021-07-15
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