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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2015
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Takafumi Hirose, Utsunomiya, JP;
Hajime Sugaya, Susono, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body having an opening, an image forming unit, a storage portions, a moving unit, and a sensing unit. The storage portions store, inside the apparatus body, a sheet having an image. The moving unit can move the sheet stored in each storage portion and stop the sheet in an exposure state where the sheet is exposed outside the apparatus body through the opening. The moving unit moves a first stored sheet and stops the first sheet in the exposure state. If the sensing unit enters a state in which the first sheet is not sensed from a state in which the first sheet is sensed, the moving unit moves a second stored sheet and stops the second sheet in the exposure state where the second sheet is exposed outside the apparatus body through the opening through which the first sheet is exposed.