Image forming apparatus and sheet accommodation unit
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHiroharu Tsuji, Masayoshi Fukatsu, Yohei Suzuki
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a main body of the image forming apparatus with an opening portion, an image forming unit, an accommodation portion, a stack portion, a sheet moving unit, and a control unit that controls switching between a first mode that moves, with the sheet moving unit, a sheet accommodated in the accommodation portion and stops the sheet when a part of the sheet is exposed external to the main body of the image forming apparatus from the opening portion, and a second mode that moves the sheet, with the sheet moving unit, accommodated in the accommodation portion and that discharges the sheet to the stack portion.
Claims8
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a main body of the image forming apparatus including an opening portion;
- an image forming unit that forms an image on a sheet;
- an accommodation portion that accommodates, inside the main body of the image forming apparatus, the sheet on which the image has been formed with the image forming unit;
- a stack portion that stacks the sheet discharged external to the main body of the image forming apparatus;
- a sheet moving unit that moves the sheet accommodated in the accommodation portion;
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- a control unit that controls switching between a first mode that moves, with the sheet moving unit, the sheet accommodated in the accommodation portion and stops the sheet when a part of the sheet is exposed external to the main body of the image forming apparatus from the opening portion, and a second mode that moves, with the sheet moving unit, the sheet accommodated in the accommodation portion without passing the sheet through the opening portion in which the sheet is exposed in the first mode and discharges the sheet to the stack portion.
A sheet accommodation unit in an image forming apparatus that forms an image on a sheet, the sheet accommodation unit comprising:
- a unit main body including an opening portion;
- an accommodation portion that accommodates, inside the unit main body, the sheet on which the image has been formed;
- a stack portion that stacks the sheet discharged external to the unit main body;
- a sheet moving unit that moves the sheet accommodated in the accommodation portion;
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- a control unit that controls switching between a first mode that moves, with the sheet moving unit, the sheet accommodated in the accommodation portion and stops the sheet when a part of the sheet is exposed external to the unit main body from the opening portion, and a second mode that moves, with the sheet moving unit, the sheet accommodated in the accommodation portion without passing the sheet through the opening portion in which the sheet is exposed in the first mode and discharges the sheet to the stack portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.