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US 6,533,263 B2Granted
Sheet conveying apparatus, and image forming apparatus and image reading apparatus having same
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMasashige Tamura
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AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMasashige Tamura
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The present invention is made in consideration of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a sheet conveying apparatus which can monitor a sheet conveying condition even with small sheet interval, an image forming apparatus having such a sheet conveying apparatus, an image reading apparatus having such a sheet conveying apparatus, and a sheet processing apparatus having such a sheet conveying apparatus. The present invention provides a sheet conveying apparatus that has detecting means for detecting each of the sheets to be conveyed, wherein, when the sheets are conveyed continuously, conveyance of a preceding sheet and a succeeding sheet is started in a condition that the succeeding sheet cannot be detected by the detecting means, and the preceding sheet and the succeeding sheet are conveyed in such a manner that a an interval which can be detected by the detecting means is created between the preceding sheet and the succeeding sheet at a position of the detecting means.
A sheet conveying apparatus for conveying sheets continuously, comprising:
An image forming apparatus for forming an image on a sheet fed from a sheet conveying apparatus by means of image forming means, comprising:
An image reading apparatus for reading an image on a sheet fed from a sheet conveying apparatus by means of image reading means, comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.