Image forming apparatus
AssigneeOki Data Corporation
InventorIsao Kitano
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a judging unit for judging as to whether paper jamming occurs in the medium feeding unit at a time that the paper jamming occurs in the medium conveyance route and a controller for controlling the medium positioned on an upstream side of the medium feeding unit to be conveyed into the medium feeding unit when judging that no paper jamming occurs in the medium feeding unit, to allow the feeding unit detaching from the apparatus body without tearing or breaking the jammed paper.
Claims8
An image forming apparatus for forming an image on a medium, comprising:
- a medium feeding unit forming a part of a medium conveyance route and having a structure detachably attached to an apparatus body;
- a judging unit for judging as to whether paper jamming occurs in the medium feeding unit at a time that the paper jamming occurs in the medium conveyance route;
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- a controller for controlling the medium positioned on an upstream side of the medium feeding unit to be conveyed into the medium feeding unit when the judging unit judges that no paper jamming occurs in the medium feeding unit.
An image forming apparatus for forming an image on a medium, comprising:
- a first medium feeding unit forming a part of a medium conveyance route and having a structure detachably attached to an apparatus body;
- a second medium feeding unit disposed below the first medium feeding unit, the second medium feeding unit having a structure detachably attached to the apparatus body;
- a judging unit for judging as to whether paper jamming occurs in the first medium feeding unit at a time that the paper jamming occurs in the medium conveyance route;
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- a controller for controlling the medium positioned on an upstream side of or inside the first medium feeding unit to be conveyed into the first medium feeding unit when the judging unit judges that no paper jamming occurs in the first medium feeding unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.