发明名称 Image forming apparatus including sheet conveyer conveying a sheet and guide guiding the sheet
摘要 An image forming apparatus includes a sheet conveyer, a main body, a movable unit movable with respect to a guide position at which the sheet is guided, a position detector outputting a position detection signal, and a controller configured to determine whether the movable unit is in the guide position based on the position detection signal, perform a feeding execution process in which controlling the conveyer to feed the sheet by a feeding amount and stop the sheet if the sheet is in a feeding area and if determining that the movable unit is not in the guide position, and perform a feeding inexecution process in which controlling the conveyer not to feed the sheet by the feeding amount and stop the sheet if the sheet is in the feeding area and if determining that the movable unit is in the guide position.
申请公布号 US8960670(B2) 申请公布日期 2015.02.24
申请号 US201314038880 申请日期 2013.09.27
申请人 Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha 发明人 Inoue Masafumi;Iino Hikaru
分类号 B65H7/02;B65H7/20;G03G15/23;G03G15/00;B65H85/00;B65H5/38 主分类号 B65H7/02
代理机构 Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. 代理人 Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.
主权项 1. An image forming apparatus comprising: a conveyer configured to convey a sheet; an image forming unit configured to form an image on the sheet; a main body including a main body guide, the main body guide being positioned downstream of the image forming unit in a feeding direction of the sheet and being configured to guide the sheet toward the image forming unit; a movable unit including a movable unit guide connected to the main body guide, the movable unit guide being configured to guide the sheet conveyed from the main body guide toward the image forming unit, the movable unit being movable with respect to a guide position at which the sheet is guided; a position detector configured to output a position detection signal according to a state of the movable unit representing whether the movable unit is in the guide position or not; and a controller configured to: determine whether the movable unit is in the guide position based on the position detection signal; perform a waiting process in which the conveyer is controlled to temporarily stop conveying the sheet at a feeding area on the main body guide; and perform a feeding execution process in which the conveyer is controlled to feed the sheet by a feeding amount in a case where it is determined that the movable unit is not in the guide position while the controller is performing the waiting process.
地址 Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken JP