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US 11,926,150 B2Granted
Sheet stacking apparatus, printing apparatus, control method, and storage medium
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKengo Nieda
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Abstract
A sheet stacking apparatus is provided. A conveyor unit performs stacking of sheets discharged from a printing apparatus and conveying of stacked sheets. A detection unit detects whether or not the printing apparatus is currently discharging a sheet. A control unit, so as to secure a stacking space for a sheet discharged from the printing apparatus on the conveyor unit, controls a feeding operation of the conveyor unit correspondingly to a period of time over which the detection unit detected that the printing apparatus is discharging a sheet.
Claims6
A sheet stacking apparatus comprising:
- a conveyor unit configured to perform stacking of sheets discharged from a printing apparatus and conveying of stacked sheets;
- a detection unit configured to detect discharging of a sheet from the printing apparatus;
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- a control unit configured to:
- (1) in a case where the detection unit detects discharging of a first sheet of a print job from the printing apparatus, start a feeding operation of the conveyor unit, and (2) in a case where the detection unit does not detect the discharging of the first sheet after the control unit starts the feeding operation, terminate the feeding operation.
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