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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 09, 2013
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Yuichiro Okawa, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 5/26 (2006.01); B65H 7/02 (2006.01); B65H 5/06 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 7/02 (2013.01); B65H 5/062 (2013.01); B65H 5/26 (2013.01); G03G 15/6564 (2013.01); B65H 2402/10 (2013.01); B65H 2513/10 (2013.01); B65H 2513/50 (2013.01); B65H 2701/1311 (2013.01); B65H 2801/06 (2013.01); G03G 2215/00945 (2013.01);
Abstract
A sheet conveyance apparatus conveys a sheet without imposing a load on a drive unit due to the bend of the sheet when the sheet is conveyed from one unit to the other, and when the sheet is conveyed by a second conveyance unit and a first conveyance unit, a first control unit controls a first drive motor and a second control unit controls a second drive motor to make a sheet conveyance speed of the first conveyance unit equal to or higher than that of the second conveyance unit.