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Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2015

Filed:

Nov. 14, 2013
Applicant:

Konica Minolta, Inc., Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Ken Nonaka, Tokyo, JP;

Takahiro Okubo, Tokyo, JP;

Yusuke Kawanago, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41F 1/34 (2006.01); B41J 13/26 (2006.01); B41J 3/60 (2006.01); B41J 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 13/26 (2013.01); B41J 3/60 (2013.01); B41J 11/0095 (2013.01);
Abstract

An image forming apparatus includes a notification section that provides information to a user; a sheet feeding section that feeds a sheet; an image forming section that forms an image on a sheet; a first conveyance section that conveys a sheet fed from the sheet feeding section to the image forming section; a displacement detection section that detects a displacement of a sheet in the first conveyance section; a displacement correction section that corrects a lateral position of a sheet on the basis of a result of detection by the displacement detection section; and a control section that controls the notification section to notify an occurrence of a displacement error which cannot be corrected by the displacement correction section and a cause of the displacement error when the displacement error is detected by the displacement detection section.


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