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US 2014/0209653 A1Published application
Sheet feeding apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTetsuo Kikuchi
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Abstract
A sheet feeding apparatus includes a conveyance unit configured to convey a sheet supplied from a holding unit, a sensor configured to detect an edge of the sheet in a width direction, and a control unit configured to detect, with the sensor, a displacement of the edge of the sheet in the width direction during movement of the sheet by a predetermined distance, and to cancel a subsequent skew detection operation if the displacement is larger than an allowable amount.
Claims10
A sheet feeding apparatus comprising:
- a conveyance unit configured to convey a sheet supplied from a holding unit;
- a sensor configured to detect an edge of the sheet in a width direction;
- and
- a control unit configured to detect, with the sensor, a displacement of the edge of the sheet in the width direction during movement of the sheet by a predetermined distance, and to cancel a subsequent skew detection operation if the displacement is larger than an allowable amount.
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A method for feeding a sheet supplied from a holding unit, the method comprising:
- detecting a skew by detecting a displacement of an edge of the sheet in a width direction of the sheet during movement of the sheet by a predetermined distance;
- and
- giving a notification to prompt a user to reset the sheet prior to the skew detection if the skew of the sheet is larger than an allowable amount.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.