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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2017
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Kazunari Hatazaki, Moriya, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/20 (2006.01); G03G 21/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 21/1647 (2013.01); G03G 21/169 (2013.01);
Abstract
A locking arm for locking a cleaning unit using a cleaning sheet, a sensor for detecting a remaining amount of the cleaning sheet, a CPU for prohibiting an image forming operation depending on an output of the sensor, and an interrelating arm acting on the sensor so as to prohibit the image forming operation when locking by the locking arm is in an unlocked state.