Image forming apparatus

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 12098041
APP PUB NO 20230249929A1
SERIAL NO

18301278

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An image forming apparatus includes a paper feeding cassette, a first conveying unit, a lift mechanism, a motor, a second conveying unit, and a control unit. The controller drives the motor and, if a value indicating a movement amount of the tray moving from when the lift mechanism starts the lifting of the tray until when a position of the top part reaches a first position is a first value, matches a position of the first conveying unit, which comes into contact with the top part to thereby rise together with the tray, with a second position and, if the value indicating the movement amount is a second value larger than the first value, matches the position of the first conveying unit, which comes into contact with the top part to thereby rise together with the tray, with a third position lower than the second position.

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TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA1-11-1 OSAKI SHINAGAWA-KU TOKYO 141-8562

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Sugimoto, Shinya Mishima Shizuoka, JP 52 130

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