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US 11,119,429 B2Granted
Image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKatsuya Nakama
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a storage portion to which a heating unit configured to heat the sheet stored in the storage portion is detachably attached, a conveyance unit, a detection unit configured to detect attachment of the heating unit to the storage portion, and a control unit configured to control the conveyance unit such that a standby time by which conveyance of the sheet fed from the storage portion is stopped is shorter when the detection unit detects the heating unit than when the detection unit does not detect the heating unit.
Claims11
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet;
- a storage portion which is configured to store a sheet, and to which a heating unit configured to heat the sheet stored in the storage portion is detachably attached;
- a conveyance unit configured to convey the sheet stored in the storage portion to the image forming unit;
- a detection unit configured to detect attachment of the heating unit to the storage portion;
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- a control unit configured to control the conveyance unit such that a standby time by which conveyance of the sheet fed from the storage portion is stopped is shorter when the detection unit detects the heating unit than when the detection unit does not detect the heating unit.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.