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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2019
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Nobuhiro Kawamura, Nagareyama, JP;
Yuzo Harano, Sagamihara, JP;
Hideaki Ooba, Yokohama, JP;
Aya Ito, Tokyo, JP;
Yusuke Kimura, Abiko, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 3/44 (2006.01); B65H 1/26 (2006.01); B65H 1/04 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 1/04 (2013.01); G03G 15/5016 (2013.01); G03G 15/6508 (2013.01); B65H 2405/115 (2013.01); B65H 2801/15 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a sheet feeding device having a plurality of sheet feeding units, an opening and closing controlling unit, and a receiving unit. The opening and closing controlling unit controls opening and closing of the sheet feeding unit. Where the receiving unit receives an instruction for assigning a sheet having selected one attribute to designated one sheet feeding unit, the opening and closing controlling unit opens the designated one sheet feeding unit.