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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2020
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Katsuya Nakama, Nagareyama, JP;
Assignee:
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/00 (2006.01); G03G 15/16 (2006.01); G03G 21/20 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/5004 (2013.01); G03G 15/1695 (2013.01); G03G 21/20 (2013.01); G03G 21/203 (2013.01); G03G 2215/0054 (2013.01); G03G 2215/00383 (2013.01); G03G 2215/00413 (2013.01); G03G 2215/00599 (2013.01); G03G 2215/00666 (2013.01); G03G 2215/00772 (2013.01); G03G 2215/00776 (2013.01); G03G 2215/1671 (2013.01); H04N 1/00037 (2013.01); H04N 1/00082 (2013.01); H04N 1/00652 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a storage portion to which a heating unit configured to heat the sheet stored in the storage portion is detachably attached, a conveyance unit, a detection unit configured to detect attachment of the heating unit to the storage portion, and a control unit configured to control the conveyance unit such that a standby time by which conveyance of the sheet fed from the storage portion is stopped is shorter when the detection unit detects the heating unit than when the detection unit does not detect the heating unit.