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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 1998
Filed:
Feb. 21, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Junko Natsume, Aichi-ken, JP;
Assignee:
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
399376 ; 399 81 ; 399407 ;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus for forming an image on a sheet based on an original image. The image forming apparatus includes a detecting device for detecting a size of the original, a setting device for setting a finish size of the sheet, a folding device for folding the sheet, and a control device for controlling the folding device based on the original size detected by the detecting device and the finish size set by the setting device.