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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. 15, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2003
Applicant:
Inventor:
Akihiko Shimazu, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Konica Corporatioin, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 1/500 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 1/500 ;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus is provide which includes an ADU that can sustain productivity per unit of time, without controlling the operation of registration rollers at fixed intervals determined by CPM that leads to temporary stopping of paper. During non-stacked circulatory conveyance for forming images on both sides of a sheet of paper, the position or the timing is corrected at which the paper is accelerated and/or decelerated in a circulatory conveyance path, whereby the image forming apparatus does not control the operation of registration rollers at fixed intervals determined by CPM when forming another image on a back side of the paper.