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Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2015

Filed:

Aug. 30, 2014
Applicant:

Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;

Inventors:

Koji Minakuchi, Osaka, JP;

Daiki Sone, Osaka, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 3/44 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01); G03G 21/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 3/44 (2013.01); G03G 15/6502 (2013.01); B65H 2551/10 (2013.01); B65H 2551/20 (2013.01); B65H 2601/521 (2013.01); G03G 21/20 (2013.01); G03G 2215/00949 (2013.01);
Abstract

An image forming apparatus can exchange a sound reduction mode and a normal mode. The image forming apparatus includes a sound reduction sheet feed cassette, a normal sheet feed cassette, a sound reduction sheet feed cassette roller, and a normal sheet feed cassette roller. The sound reduction sheet feed cassette roller and the normal sheet feed cassette roller can exchange rotation speed to a slower speed than a normal paper feeding speed, In the sound reduction mode, the image forming apparatus performs one of a noise reduction high performance mode and a noise reduction low performance mode. In the normal mode, the image forming apparatus performs a high performance mode.


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