Image forming system and image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHiroki Kato, Atsushi Ogata, Kazushi Ino, Motohiro Furusawa, Koji Kawamura, Ichiro Yasumaru
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Abstract
A discharge unit discharges the sheet has an image. A switching unit switches between stacking the sheet discharged from the discharge unit on a stacking unit or conveying the sheet the discharge unit toward an image reading apparatus. A conveyance unit conveys the sheet conveyed via the switching unit to a reading unit. A cooling unit cools the sheet discharged from the discharge unit or cools the reading unit.
Claims17
An image forming system including an image forming apparatus that forms an image on a sheet and an image reading apparatus that reads an image formed on a sheet, the system comprising:
- an image forming unit arranged in the image forming apparatus and configured to form an image on a sheet;
- a discharge unit configured to discharge the sheet on which the image is formed by the image forming unit;
- a stacking unit configured to stack the sheet discharged by the discharge unit;
- a switching unit configured to switch between stacking the sheet discharged from the discharge unit on the stacking unit or conveying the sheet discharged from the discharge unit toward the image reading apparatus;
- a feeding unit arranged in the image reading apparatus and configured to feed a sheet;
- a main conveyance path configured to convey the sheet fed by the feeding unit;
- a reading unit configured to read the sheet conveyed through the main conveyance path;
- a conveyance unit configured to convey the sheet conveyed via the switching unit to the reading unit;
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- a cooling unit configured to cool the sheet discharged from the discharge unit of the image forming apparatus and conveyed to the reading unit, or to cool the reading unit.
An image forming system including an image forming apparatus that forms an image on a sheet and an image reading apparatus that reads an image formed on a sheet,
- wherein the image forming apparatus comprises:
- a first main conveyance path configured to convey a sheet from a storage unit to a discharge unit;
- an image forming unit that is arranged to the first main conveyance path and configured to form an image on the sheet;
- a first reversing unit configured to reverse a surface of the sheet that opposes the image forming unit by reversing a conveyance direction of the sheet conveyed through the first main conveyance path;
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- a first sub conveyance path configured to convey the sheet whose conveyance direction is reversed by the first reversing unit to the first main conveyance path, and
- the image reading apparatus comprises:
- a second main conveyance path configured to convey a sheet fed from a feed unit;
- a reading unit that is arranged in the second main conveyance path and configured to read an image formed on the sheet;
- a second reversing unit configured to reverse the conveyance direction of the sheet;
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- a second sub conveyance path configured to convey the sheet whose conveyance direction is reversed by the second reversing unit to the second main conveyance path, and
- the image forming system further comprises a guiding conveyance path configured to convey the sheet on which the image is formed by the image forming unit to the second reversing unit of the image reading apparatus, and
- a cooling unit configured to cool the sheet on which the image formed by the image forming unit and that is conveyed to the image reading apparatus via the guiding conveyance path or to cool the reading unit, and
- the reading unit reads the image formed by the image forming unit on the sheet that is conveyed to the image reading apparatus via the guiding conveyance path.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a feeding unit configured to feed a sheet;
- a main conveyance path configured to convey the sheet fed by the feeding unit;
- a reading unit configured to read an image formed on the sheet conveyed to the main conveyance path;
- an image forming unit configured to form the image on the sheet;
- a discharge unit configured to discharge the sheet on which the image is formed by the image forming unit;
- a stacking unit configured to stack the sheet discharged by the discharge unit;
- a switching unit configured to switch between stacking the sheet discharged from the discharge unit on the stacking unit or conveying the sheet discharged from the discharge unit toward the reading unit;
- a conveyance unit configured to convey the sheet conveyed via the switching unit to the reading unit;
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- a cooling unit configured to cool the sheet discharged from the discharge unit and conveyed to the reading unit of the conveyance unit, or to cool the reading unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.