Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 图像形成装置
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Application No.: US14722279Application Date: 2015-05-27
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Publication No.: US09563163B2Publication Date: 2017-02-07
- Inventor: Kenichi Tanaka , Taiya Hirayama , Shutaro Saito
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto
- Priority: JP2014-111046 20140529; JP2015-076664 20150403
- Main IPC: G03G15/00
- IPC: G03G15/00 ; G03G15/20 ; G03G21/16

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes: a display portion; an image forming device; a fixing device; a controller configured to control display of the display portion so that one is selected from a plurality of sheet widths to impose a limitation on a use of the image forming apparatus; a storing portion, provided detachably mountable to the image forming apparatus together with the fixing device, configured to store information corresponding to the sheet width selected at the display portion; a reading portion configured to read information stored in the storing portion; and a limiting portion configured to impose, on the basis of the information read by the reading portion, a limitation on widths of sheets capable of being designated as a printing condition.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150346664A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2015-12-03
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