Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Kabushiki Kaisha I.s.t.

Yasumi Yoshida

Takashi Hiratsuka

Takeshi Aoyama

Shinji Yamamoto

Tadashi Matsumoto

Toshihiro Fukasaka

Shinsuke Ubayashi

Ryusei Kominato

Makoto Tanaka

Kazuo Shishido

Noriaki Koyanagi

Takaaki Aoyagi

Sumitoshi Sotome

Hiroshi Sasame

Masahiko Yashiro

Toshirou Kasamura

Masaaki Sakurai

Masanari Shirai

Shinichiro Wakahara

Hiroyoshi Maruyama

Hiroyuki Takahara

Minoru Nada

Tamotsu Okada

Sumitoshi Sootome

Isamu Sakane

Hisao Nakajima

Provided is a sheet feeding device and an image forming apparatus capable of performing sheet feeding by electrostatic adsorption at a low noise with a simple configuration. A first outer nip conveying rollerand a second outer nip conveying rollerthat nip an adsorbing membersupported in a state an inside is loose by a first inner nip conveying rollerand a second inner nip conveying rollerare provided.

Sheet feeding device and image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus capable of accurately forming an image in a predetermined position on a sheet. An image forming unit forms a toner image on a drum. The toner image is transferred onto a belt. A motor drives the belt to convey the toner image to a transfer position where the toner image is transferred onto a sheet. An image position-detecting section detects that a patch image indicating the position of the toner image on the belt has reached a detection position upstream of the transfer position in an image conveying direction. A sheet position-detecting section detects that the leading edge of the sheet has reached a detection position upstream of the transfer position in a sheet conveying direction. An image speed-setting section controls the conveying speed of the belt based on timings of detection by the respective image position-detecting and sheet position-detecting sections.

Image forming apparatus that transfers toner image onto sheet

An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive drum; an image forming device for forming a toner image on the drum; an endless belt; first and second rollers supporting the belt; a first sensor for detecting a widthwise position of the belt; a first displacing device for displacing the first roller in accordance with an output of the first sensor; a second sensor for detecting a widthwise position of the belt; a second displacing device for displacing the second in accordance with an output of the second sensor; an adjuster for adjusting first and second reference positions such that a tangent line direction of the drum at a position at which the drum contacts the belt is parallel with a moving direction the belt.

Image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable belt member, a plurality of image forming members opposing the belt in an image forming region, a first detecting member configured to detect a position of the belt member with respect to a widthwise direction, a second detecting member configured to detect a moving direction, an adjusting roller configured to adjust the moving direction in the image forming region, the adjusting roller configured to adjust the moving direction in the image forming region, and a control portion configured to control a position of the adjusting roller on the basis of outputs of the first detecting member and the second detecting member without changing a position of the belt member in the image forming region in a direction perpendicular to a surface of the belt member.

Image forming apparatus with belt adjustment

An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member; a rotatable belt member; a rotatable supporting roller for stretching the belt member; and a steering roller controlled by motors for stretching the belt member and for moving the belt member in a widthwise direction by an inclining operation. A number of sensors detect the position of the belt member in the widthwise direction and produce an output, causing a first controller to change the amount of the inclining operation of the steering roller in order to counter the force moving the belt member in the widthwise direction. The output of the sensors also causes a second controller to change the amount of the inclining operation of the steering roller in short intervals to reduce the rapid positional deviation of the belt member attributable to the inclination of the steering roller.

Image forming apparatus with belt position control feature

An apparatus includes a belt member, a first image bearing member, a second image bearing member provided downstream of the first image bearing member, and a first steering roller provided upstream of the first image bearing member for controlling a widthwise position of the belt member by inclining at a position. In addition, a second steering roller is provided downstream of the second image bearing member and controls the widthwise position of the belt member, a first detecting member detects a widthwise position of the belt member on the first image bearing member, and a second detecting member detects a widthwise position of the belt member on the second image bearing member. A first control portion controls an inclination of the first steering roller on the basis of a detection result of the first detecting member, and a second control portion controls the second steering roller on the basis of a detection result of the first detecting member before a predetermined time and a current detection result of the second detecting member.

Image forming apparatus having transfer belt control

An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable belt member; an image forming station; first and second detecting members for detecting widthwise positions of the belt member; first and second steering rollers for correcting the widthwise positions of the belt member by inclination; a control portion configured to control inclinations of the first and second steering rollers on the basis of an output of the first or second detecting member; a first executing portion configured to execute, in a period other than an image formation period, an operation in a correction mode of, in a state that the first steering roller is at a first reference inclination, controlling the second steering roller to correct a second reference inclination of the second steering roller; and a second executing portion configured to execute, in a period other than that of the correction mode operation, an operation in a control mode of controlling the first and second steering rollers on the basis of the first and second reference inclinations.

Image forming apparatus with conveying belt position detection and correction

A both-face automatic original feeding apparatus wherein a plurality of originals having images on their first and second surfaces are successively supplied from an original stacking portion to a predetermined position for reading an original, and each original is reversely rotated through a switch-back path after the first surface of the original passes through the predetermined position, thereby supplying the original to the predetermined position again to direct the second surface of the original to the predetermined position. In such a feeding apparatus, there is provided an introduction path for directing the original supplied from the original stacking portion to the predetermined position; a first discharge path for directing the original to the switch-back path after the original passes through the predetermined position; a surface reverse path for directing the original from the switch-back path to the predetermined position after reversing a first surface and a rear surface of the original; and a controller for controlling the apparatus in such a manner that a preceding original is switched back to convey it in the surface reverse path while a succeeding original is being passed through the predetermined position, and, when a trailing end of the succeeding original leaves the predetermined position, a tip end of the preceding original reaches the predetermined position.

Both-face automatic original feeding apparatus

A sheet feeding apparatus with a sheet supporting unit for supporting sheets, a sheet absorb device for air-absorbing a lowermost sheet from among the sheets supported by the sheet supporting unit, a conveyer for conveying the sheet absorbed to the sheet absorb device, a regulator for regulating a downward movement of the sheets supported by the sheet supporting unit by abutting tip ends of such sheets against the regulator, a passage arranged between the conveyer and the regulator and adapted to guide the sheet conveyed by the conveyer, and a controller for driving the conveyer in a reverse direction after the sheet conveyed by the conveyer is fed out through the passage.

Sheet feeding apparatus with sheet absorb means and a conveyor

A sheet feeding device can perform registration of a sheet with high precision even if the sheet is fed at high speed. The device includes a pair of active registration rollers, disposed at a side upstream from a reading unit in the sheet feeding direction, for correcting skew of the sheet, skew-amount detection sensors, disposed at a side downstream from the pair of active registration rollers in the sheet feeding direction, respective pairs of feeding rollers, disposed at a side upstream from the pairs of active registration rollers in the sheet feeding direction, and sheet detection sensors, disposed at a side upstream from the pairs of feeding rollers in the sheet feeding direction. Each of the pairs of feeding rollers includes a roller having a semispherical cross section at the driving side. When the leading edge of the sheet has been detected by the sheet detection sensors, the semispherical rollers are stopped in a state of not holding the sheet when the sheet is fed to the pair of active registration rollers by rotating the semispherical rollers by a predetermined number of revolutions at the same phase.

Sheet feeding device with control of skew-correction

The present invention provides a sheet supply apparatus with a sheet supporting unit for supporting sheets, a sheet absorb device for absorbing a sheet supported by the sheet supporting unit to separate the sheet from the other sheets, a conveyer for conveying the sheet absorbed by the sheet absorb means, and a sheet feature detecting device for detecting rigidity of the sheet absorbed by the sheet absorb device.

Sheet supply apparatus

A separating apparatus for separating foreign matter from magnetic toner, includes a filter with openings allowing a toner to pass therethrough, a vibration generator for vibrating the filter in a substantially horizontal direction relative to a filter surface of the filter, and magnetic field generator for generating a magnetic field for attracting the magnetic toner through the filter.

Separating apparatus and image forming apparatus

Disclosed is a fixing device with a rotating member for performing a fixing operation by pinching and carrying a recording medium supporting an unfixed image. It separates a member pressing against the surface of the rotating member to separate the recording medium from the rotating member and its contact pressure is switchable between the first and second pressure, the second pressure being less than the first pressure and the switching taking place during the separation of the recording medium from the rotating member and after a front edge of the recording medium has separated.

Fixing device with separation member capable of varying contact pressure

The present invention provides a sheet supply apparatus with a sheet support for supporting a plurality of sheets, a first sheet absorb unit arranged facing a sheet surface of the sheet stack supported by the sheet support for absorbing the sheet by air suction, a second sheet absorb unit arranged facing a tip end of the sheet stack in a sheet supply direction for absorbing the sheet by air suction and a conveyer for conveying the sheet absorbed to the first and second sheet absorb units. The first sheet absorb unit and the second sheet absorb unit are respectively disposed at positions where the first sheet absorb unit is substantially parallel to the sheet surface and the second sheet absorb unit is inclined relative to the sheet surface. When a sheet stops a feeding unit operates in response to return the sheet to the sheet stack as the sheet is being absorbed by the first sheet absorb unit.

The present invention provides a sheet feeding apparatus which includes a first conveying device for conveying a sheet stack formed in a stepped fashion by offsetting each sheet by a predetermined distance in a predetermined direction toward the predetermined direction or toward an opposite direction, a separating device disposed at a downstream side of the first conveying means in the predetermined direction and adapted to separate an outermost sheet from the sheet stack being fed by the first conveying device, a second conveying device for conveying the sheet separated by the separating device, and control device for controlling the first conveying device in such a manner that the first conveying device is activated to convey the sheet stack in the predetermined direction and the first conveying device is stopped after the sheet separated by the separating device starts to be conveyed by the second conveying device.

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Yokohama, Japan

Yasumi Yoshida