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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2017
Applicant:
Konica Minolta, Inc., Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Yoshiteru Kawakami, Hino, JP;
Assignee:
Konica Minolta, Inc., Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/00 (2006.01); B65H 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/5062 (2013.01); B65H 1/00 (2013.01); G03G 15/5029 (2013.01); G03G 15/6529 (2013.01); G03G 15/6567 (2013.01); G03G 15/6564 (2013.01); G03G 2215/00721 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming part that forms an image on a sheet; a conveyor that conveys the sheet on which the image is formed by the image forming part; a corrector including a swing member that moves the sheet conveyed by the conveyor in a main scanning direction of the image; and a hardware processor that rotates the image formed on the sheet after timing at which the swing member loses contact with the sheet when the swing member separates from the sheet or the sheet is conveyed to pass through the swing member in accordance with a bending amount of the sheet.