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US 8,285,193 B2Granted
Sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Finetech Inc.
InventorNaoto Saeki
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Abstract
A sheet processing apparatus of the invention has: an ejecting unit that is capable of receiving a sheet on which a toner image has been heated and fixed, and ejecting the sheet for a predetermined normal ejecting time; and a processing unit that processes the sheet ejected by the ejecting unit according to obtained sheet information, wherein the ejecting unit ejects the sheet for an ejecting time longer than the normal ejecting time.
Claims6
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming unit that forms a toner image onto a sheet;
- a fixing unit that fixes the toner image formed on the sheet by the image forming unit by heating the sheet;
- an ejecting unit that is capable of receiving the sheet on which the toner image has been heated and fixed, and ejecting the sheet for a predetermined normal ejecting time,
- a fixing temperature measuring unit that measures a fixing temperature of the fixing unit;
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- a control unit that obtains information of the fixing temperature from the fixing temperature measuring unit and, when the fixing temperature is equal to or higher than a predetermined temperature, makes an ejecting time in the ejecting unit longer than the normal ejecting time, and ejects the sheet.
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An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming unit that forms a toner image onto a sheet;
- a fixing unit that fixes the toner image formed on the sheet by the image forming unit by heating the sheet;
- an ejecting unit that is capable of receiving the sheet on which the toner image has been heated and fixed, and ejecting the sheet for a predetermined normal ejecting time,
- a sheet temperature measuring unit that measures a temperature of the sheet;
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- a control unit that obtains the sheet temperature information from the sheet temperature measuring unit and, when the sheet temperature is equal to or higher than a predetermined temperature, makes the ejecting time in the ejecting unit longer than the normal ejecting time, and ejects the sheet.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.