Sheet feeding device and image forming device
AssigneeKonica Minolta, Inc.
InventorYoshiyuki MASUDA
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Abstract
A sheet feeding device includes: a sheet storage that stores a plurality of sheets; a conveyer that conveys, in a sheet conveyance direction, sheets stored inside the sheet storage; a driver that drives the conveyer in such a manner that a conveyance speed of the sheet is switchable between two or more speeds; a corrector that corrects inclination of the sheet more on a downstream side in the sheet conveyance direction than the conveyer is; a first sheet detector that detects a sheet positioned at a first predetermined position between the conveyer and the corrector; and a hardware processor that controls the driver to change a conveyance speed of the sheet conveyed by the conveyer in accordance with a detection result of the first sheet detector.
Claims7
A sheet feeding device comprising:
- a sheet storage that stores a plurality of sheets;
- a conveyer that conveys, in a sheet conveyance direction, sheets stored inside the sheet storage;
- a driver that drives the conveyer in such a manner that a conveyance speed of the sheet is switchable between two or more speeds;
- a corrector that corrects inclination of the sheet more on a downstream side in the sheet conveyance direction than the conveyer is;
- a first sheet detector that detects a sheet positioned at a first predetermined position between the conveyer and the corrector;
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- a hardware processor that controls the driver to change a conveyance speed of the sheet conveyed by the conveyer in accordance with a detection result of the first sheet detector.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.