Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Sheet conveyance apparatus, image forming apparatus, and image forming system
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Application No.: US15188778Application Date: 2016-06-21
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Publication No.: US09885994B2Publication Date: 2018-02-06
- Inventor: Minoru Asakawa
- Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
- Current Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Holtz, Holtz & Volek PC
- Priority: JP2015-143576 20150721
- Main IPC: G03G15/00
- IPC: G03G15/00 ; G03G21/00 ; G03G21/14 ; B65H33/04 ; B65H1/00 ; B65H39/10 ; B65H3/44 ; B65H3/52 ; B65H7/06 ; B65H7/20

Abstract:
A sheet conveyance apparatus which conveys sheets fed from a first sheet feeding unit and sheets fed from a second sheet feeding unit to a merging point, inserts the sheets fed from the first sheet feeding unit into the sheets fed from the second sheet feeding unit in a predetermined order at the merging point, and discharges the sheets fed from the first sheet feeding unit and the sheets fed from the second sheet feeding unit to a downstream side includes: a jam detecting unit configured to detect a jam of a sheet in the first sheet feeding unit; and a control unit configured to newly feed sheets which are before the predetermined order, in which a sheet causing the jam is supposed to be inserted, and have not been fed from the second sheet feeding unit, and convey the newly fed sheets to the downstream side.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170023901A1 SHEET CONVEYANCE APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2017-01-26
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