Feeding apparatus, and image forming system
AssigneeCanon Finetech Nisca Inc.
InventorShin Iwasaki
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
There is provided with a feeding apparatus that feeds sheets to an apparatus serving as a feeding destination. A sheet storage unit stores the sheets and be able to be pulled out from the feeding apparatus. A stacking unit stacks the sheets. A detection unit detects a connected state and a separated state. A control unit places the sheet stacked on the stacking unit at the predetermined height when the detection unit detects the connected state. A control unit lowers the stacking unit so as to place the sheet at the predetermined height stacked on the stacking unit to a position lower than the predetermined height in accordance with detection of a change from the connected state to the separated state by the detection unit.
Claims10
A feeding apparatus that feeds sheets to an apparatus serving as a feeding destination, the feeding apparatus comprising:
- a sheet storage unit configured to store the sheets and be able to be pulled out from the feeding apparatus;
- a stacking unit which is liftably and lowerably arranged inside the sheet storage unit and on which the sheets are stacked;
- a conveying unit including a roller pair configured to convey a sheet, of the sheets stacked on the stacking unit, which is fed from a predetermined height;
- and
- a detection unit configured to detect a connected state in which the feeding apparatus is connected to the apparatus serving as the feeding destination so as to allow a sheet to be fed and a separated state in which the feeding apparatus is separated from the apparatus serving as the feeding destination;
- and
- a control unit configured to place the sheet stacked on the stacking unit at the predetermined height when the detection unit detects the connected state while the sheet storage unit is inserted in the feeding apparatus and configured to lower the stacking unit so as to place the sheet at the predetermined height stacked on the stacking unit to a position lower than the predetermined height in accordance with detection of a change from the connected state to the separated state by the detection unit.
A feeding apparatus that feeds sheets to an apparatus serving as a feeding destination, the feeding apparatus comprising:
- a sheet storage unit configured to store the sheets and be able to be pulled out from the feeding apparatus;
- a stacking unit which is liftably and lowerably arranged inside the sheet storage unit and on which the sheets are stacked;
- a conveying unit including a roller pair configured to convey a sheet, of the sheets stacked on the stacking unit, which is fed from a predetermined height;
- a detection unit configured to detect a connected state in which the feeding apparatus is connected to the apparatus serving as the feeding destination so as to allow a sheet to be fed and a separated state in which the feeding apparatus is separated from the apparatus serving as the feeding destination;
- and
- a control unit configured to place the sheet stacked on the stacking unit at a position lower than the predetermined height when the detection unit detects the separated state while the sheet storage unit is inserted in the feeding apparatus and configured to lift the stacking unit so as to place the sheet at a position lower than the predetermined height stacked on the stacking unit to the predetermined height in accordance with detection of a change from the separated state to the connected state by the detection unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.