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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 23, 2011
Yuzo Matsumoto, Abiko, JP;
Tetsuro Fukusaka, Abiko, JP;
Yoshitaka Yamazaki, Abiko, JP;
Taishi Tomii, Toride, JP;
Yuzo Matsumoto, Abiko, JP;
Tetsuro Fukusaka, Abiko, JP;
Yoshitaka Yamazaki, Abiko, JP;
Taishi Tomii, Toride, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A sheet feeding apparatus and an image forming apparatus are provided. Timing when a subsequent sheet is adsorbed by an adsorbing and conveying mechanism of a sheet feeding device which adsorbs and conveys sheets blown up by air blowing is controlled, and the subsequent sheet is conveyed while being overlapped partially at an overlapping amount with a preceding sheet Sa adsorbed by the adsorbing and conveying mechanism earlier regardless of the size, basis weight, and kind of sheets.