US 2016/0355359 A1Published application

Image-forming apparatus

AssigneeKonica Minolta, Inc.

InventorSatoshi HAMAYA

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Abstract

An image-forming apparatus contains an image-forming portion, a first conveying portion that is arranged at an upstream side of the image-forming portion along a sheet conveying direction, a second conveying portion that is arranged at an upstream side of the first conveying portion along the sheet conveying direction and a control portion. The control portion controls the first conveying portion to move a pair of registration rollers along a direction that is orthogonal to the sheet conveying direction while the pair of registration rollers nips the sheet when conveying the sheet to the image-forming portion. The control portion controls the second conveying portion to move one of the pair of conveying rollers along the direction that is orthogonal to the sheet conveying direction while the pair of conveying rollers does not nip the sheet.

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Dependent claims

An image-forming apparatus comprising:

an image-forming portion that forms an image on a sheet;
a first conveying portion that is arranged at an upstream side of the image-forming portion along a sheet conveying direction and includes a pair of conveying members;
a second conveying portion that is arranged at an upstream side of the first conveying portion along the sheet conveying direction and includes a pair of conveying members;
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a control portion that controls the first conveying portion to move the pair of conveying members of the first conveying portion along a direction that is orthogonal to the sheet conveying direction while the pair of conveying members of the first conveying portion nips the sheet, when conveying the sheet to the image-forming portion, and controls the second conveying portion to move at least one of the pair of conveying members of the second conveying portion along the direction that is orthogonal to the sheet conveying direction while the pair of conveying members of the second conveying portion inhibits the sheet from being nipped.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/159,081Filed 19 May 2016
Priority: JP 2015-1129793 Jun 2015
Published: 8 Dec 2016
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification15 codes

B65H 5/062
By rollers or balls, e.g. between rollers: between rollers or balls
B41J 13/103
Sheet holders, retainers , movable guides, or stationary guides: for the sheet feeding section
B65H 9/002
Registering, e.g. orientating, articles; Devices therefor: changing orientation of sheet by only controlling movement of the forwarding means,…
B65H 9/006
Deskewing sheet by abutting against a stop, i.e. producing a buckling of the sheet: the stop being formed by forwarding means in stand-by

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