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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2017
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Keisuke Endoh, Fuji, JP;
Hiroshi Hagiwara, Suntou-gun, JP;
Assignee:
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/23 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01); G03G 21/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/234 (2013.01); G03G 15/6564 (2013.01); G03G 15/6579 (2013.01); G03G 21/14 (2013.01); G03G 2215/00599 (2013.01); G03G 2215/00945 (2013.01); G03G 2215/2083 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image forming unit forms an image on a sheet. A reverse unit pulls in the sheet from a main conveyance path and reverses a conveyance direction of the sheet to feed the sheet to a sub-conveyance path. A control unit causes a conveyance unit to convey a first sheet that is waiting to the main conveyance path after a trailing end of a second sheet that has been fed from a feeding unit and follows the first sheet has passed through a merging point, and moves a trailing end of the first sheet downstream of a branch point before the second sheet reaches the branch point.