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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 26, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 29, 2008
Applicants:
Keisuke Kimura, Ishikawa, JP;
Shigeru Yonemura, Ishikawa, JP;
Takeshi Kimura, Ishikawa, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
PFU Limited, Ishikawa, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 7/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A plurality of moving-amount detecting units respectively detects a moving amount of the sheet fed by a feeding unit at a plurality of points in a width direction of the sheet. A skew detecting unit detects a skew of the sheet based on the moving amount of the sheet detected by the moving-amount detecting units.