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US 11,966,187 B2Granted
Feeding apparatus with control of ion irradiation unit that irradiates sheet
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTadahisa Sugiyama
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Abstract
A feeding apparatus includes a feeding unit, an ion generating unit and a controller. The ion generating unit irradiates the sheet fed by the feeding unit with the ion. The controller acquires an information on the fed sheet and to controls the ion generating unit. The controller operates the ion generating unit in a case that the information of the sheet is a first information, and does not operate the ion generating unit in a case that the information of the sheet is a second information.
Claims7
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of cassettes configured to accommodate a sheet;
- a memory unit configured to memorize a kind of the sheet accommodated in the plurality of cassettes in association with each of the plurality of cassettes;
- a feeding unit configured to feed the sheet accommodated in the plurality of cassettes;
- an image forming unit configured to form an image on the sheet fed by the feeding unit;
- an environment information detecting portion configured to detect an environment information;
- an ion irradiation unit configured to irradiate the sheet, on which the image is formed by the image forming unit, with an ion in a non-contact state with respect to the sheet;
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- a controller configured to control the ion irradiation unit,
- wherein the controller determines whether or not to cause the ion irradiation unit to irradiate the sheet with the ion based on the environment information in a case in which the sheet is a first kind, and
- wherein the controller causes the ion irradiation unit not to irradiate the sheet with the ion irrespective of the environment information in a case in which the sheet is a second kind of which electrical resistivity is lower than that of the first kind.
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