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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 10, 2011
Applicant:
Masaaki Moriya, Moriya, JP;
Inventor:
Masaaki Moriya, Moriya, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, , JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/00 (2006.01); B65H 7/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An image forming apparatus that can detect a leading edge of a tabbed sheet after skew correction with high accuracy and without increasing a size of the apparatus. A transfer unit transfers a toner image to the sheet, the skew of which having been corrected based on a detection result of a first skew detection unit, while the toner image is controlled to be synchronized with the sheet based on the detection result of the first skew detection unit and a detection result of a second skew detection unit.