Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus and image forming system
-
Application No.: US15039351Application Date: 2014-11-18
-
Publication No.: US09964907B2Publication Date: 2018-05-08
- Inventor: Masahiro Uehara , Hideyuki Matsubara , Tadashi Okanishi , Eijiro Ohashi , Masayoshi Takahashi
- 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: JP2013-248444 20131129; JP2014-095837 20140507
- International Application: PCT/JP2014/005774 WO 20141118
- International Announcement: WO2015/079651 WO 20150604
- Main IPC: G03G15/00
- IPC: G03G15/00

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a feeding unit, a regulation member, a detection unit, and a control unit. The feeding unit feeds a recording material from a storage unit to a conveying path. In the storage unit, the regulation member controls a trailing edge of the recording material in a feeding direction. The detection unit detects time until the recording material reaches a predetermined position along the conveying path after the feeding unit begins to feed the recording material. The control unit determines a state of the regulation member based on the detected time. Where the time detected by the detection unit is a value between a first threshold and a second threshold, which is larger than the first threshold, the control unit determines that the regulation member is shifting from a position corresponding to a size of the recording material in the feeding direction.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170023900A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2017-01-26
Information query