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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2019
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Teruhito Kai, Abiko, JP;
Hiroto Nishihara, Tsukuba, JP;
Hiromi Shimura, Toride, JP;
Keita Takahashi, Abiko, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a manual feed tray for placing a sheet to be subjected to image formation; a pickup roller configured to abut against the placed sheet to feed the sheet; a controller; and a human detection sensor. The controller maintains an abutment state, in which the pickup roller is held in abutment against the sheet, until a time period during which the abutment state is maintained reaches an abutment timeout. When a time period during which no human is detected by the human detection sensor in the vicinity of the image forming apparatus reaches a human detection timeout even before the time period during which the abutment state is maintained reaches the abutment timeout, the controller brings the pickup roller into a non-abutment state against the sheet.