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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2019
Filed:
May. 18, 2018
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Koji Yumoto, Toride, JP;
Satoru Yamamoto, Noda, JP;
Akinobu Nishikata, Matsudo, JP;
Takashi Yokoya, Yoshikawa, JP;
Akihiro Kawakita, Abiko, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus transmits a sheet feeding request to the sheet feeding device, obtains a sheet through a receiving device and performs image formation on the sheet. The receiving device comprises an inlet sensor for detecting a sheet fed from the sheet feeding device. The image forming apparatus transmits the sheet feeding request to the sheet feeding device again in a case where the inlet sensor does not detect a sheet within a predetermined time after the sheet feeding device starts to feed a sheet and no signal indicating an abnormality with regard to a sheet is received from the sheet feeding device. If the number of times the sheet feeding request is transmitted exceeds a predetermined number of times, the image forming apparatus stops operation.