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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2012
Yuichiro Maeyama, Kanagawa, JP;
Kazuhiro Wakamatsu, Kanagawa, JP;
Masahiko Yamada, Tokyo, JP;
Masato Ogawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Toshihiro Yoshinuma, Kanagawa, JP;
Yuichiro Maeyama, Kanagawa, JP;
Kazuhiro Wakamatsu, Kanagawa, JP;
Masahiko Yamada, Tokyo, JP;
Masato Ogawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Toshihiro Yoshinuma, Kanagawa, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a recording head, a carriage, a sheet cutting device, a cutter position detecting device, and a notification device. The carriage mounts the recording head and is reciprocally movable in a width direction of a sheet perpendicular to a sheet feed direction. The sheet cutting device includes a cutter and a cutter holder. A movement area of the carriage overlaps, in a thickness direction of the sheet, a movement area of the cutter holder in which the cutter holder moves to cut the sheet with the cutter. The cutter holder, after cutting the sheet, is movable in the width direction of the sheet with the cutter holder being retracted from the sheet feed path in the thickness direction of the sheet. The notification device notifies a user of an abnormality of the cutter holder based on a detection result of the cutter position detecting device.