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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2019
Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Junichi Oura, Osaka, JP;
KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A relay conveyance device includes a relay conveyance path, a processing unit, a main heater and a sub heater. The relay conveyance path is arranged between an image forming apparatus forming an image on a sheet and a post processing device carrying out post process to the sheet with the image formed by the image forming apparatus to convey the sheet from the image forming apparatus to the post processing device. The processing unit carries out predetermined process to the sheet at a predetermined position on the relay conveyance path. The main heater heats the sheet in processing in the processing unit. The sub heater heats the sheet in conveying at a position other than the predetermined position on the relay conveyance path. When an ink amount of the image formed on the sheet is less than a predetermined lower threshold, the sub heater is turned off.