Adhesion apparatus for forming image of powder adhesive, and image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKohei Matsuda, Taku Watanabe, Shun Sato, Tsutomu Shimano, Yuki Nishizawa
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Abstract
An adhesion apparatus includes: an image forming unit configured to form, through an electrophotographic process, an adhesive image of a powder adhesive on a sheet that is conveyed; and a control unit configured to control the image forming unit to use a first pattern in a first conveyance period, and use a second pattern different from the first pattern in a second conveyance period following the first conveyance period, as a formation pattern in an adhering section corresponding to part of a width direction orthogonal to a conveyance direction of the sheet.
Claims8
An adhesion apparatus comprising:
- an image forming unit configured to form, through an electrophotographic process, an adhesive image of a powder adhesive on a sheet that is conveyed;
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- a control unit configured to control the image forming unit to use a first pattern in a first conveyance period, and use a second pattern different from the first pattern in a second conveyance period following the first conveyance period, as a formation pattern in an adhering section corresponding to part of a width direction orthogonal to a conveyance direction of the sheet,
- wherein the adhering section includes a first adhering section located at one end of the sheet in the width direction and a second adhering section located at another end of the sheet in the width direction,
- the first pattern is a pattern that causes the powder adhesive to adhere to the sheet continuously along the conveyance direction in the first adhering section, and does not cause the powder adhesive to adhere to the sheet in the second adhering section,
- the second pattern is a pattern that causes the powder adhesive to adhere to the sheet continuously along the conveyance direction in the second adhering section, and does not cause the powder adhesive to adhere to the sheet in the first adhering section, and
- the first conveyance period is a period for forming the adhesive image on a first sheet, and the second conveyance period is a period for forming the adhesive image on a second sheet that follows the first sheet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.