Image forming apparatus

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9146520
APP PUB NO 20140234001A1
SERIAL NO

14180713

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An image forming apparatus includes: a transfer portion for transferring an image onto a sheet at a transfer nip; a fixing portion for fixing the image on the sheet at a fixing nip; a sheet feeding guide, provided between the transfer portion and the fixing portion, having a sheet guide surface; a sheet detecting portion provided between the transfer portion and the fixing portion; and a controller for controlling a sheet feeding speed of at least one of the transfer portion and the fixing portion depending on an output of the sheet detecting portion so that a feeding attitude of the sheet sandwiched at both of the transfer nip and the fixing nip is maintained in a predetermined feeding attitude. The sheet guide surface of the sheet feeding guide has a most recessed region in a region between the transfer portion and the sheet detecting portion.

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Patent Owner(s)

  • CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA

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Inventor(s)

Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Agata, Jun Suntou-gun, JP 35 151
Fuse, Yasuhiko Mishima, JP 28 164
Koyama, Tomooku Suntou-gun, JP 30 143
Minagawa, Taisuke Mishima, JP 24 105
Takamura, Daisuke Fujinomiya, JP 18 77
Uchida, Wataru Yokohama, JP 49 362
Yoshida, Masatoshi Susono, JP 94 834

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