Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Ken-ichi Manabe

Yuji Yamanaka

Jiro Shirakata

Koji Takematsu

Kohei Koshida

Hideaki Kosasa

Hideaki Miyazawa

Hisashi Otaka

Conveyance speed of recording materials by a fixing roller pair can be set to conveyance speed based on detected results of a recording material detector and a loop detecting sensor, and information on the recording material that has been stored in a memory in advance, and the conveyance speed of the fixing roller pair is set so that loop length of the recording material will be a lower limit length, after the loop detecting sensor detects a loop of the recording material, and before the rear end of the recording material passes through the transfer roller pair.

Image forming apparatus with conveyance speed control based in part on loop detection

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Tokyo, Japan

Ken-ichi Manabe