US 12,251,930 B2
Printing apparatus
Masato Eiyama, Yokohama (JP); Yuki Igarashi, Tokyo (JP); Masashi Kamada, Kawasaki (JP); Masashi Negishi, Kawasaki (JP); Ryoya Shinjo, Kawasaki (JP); Ryo Kobayashi, Kawasaki (JP); Tomohiro Suzuki, Kawasaki (JP); and Tsutomu Obata, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Oct. 3, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/376,269.
Application 18/376,269 is a continuation of application No. 17/577,718, filed on Jan. 18, 2022, granted, now 11,806,995.
Application 17/577,718 is a continuation of application No. 16/825,582, filed on Mar. 20, 2020, granted, now 11,273,654, issued on Mar. 15, 2022.
Application 16/825,582 is a continuation of application No. 15/906,146, filed on Feb. 27, 2018, granted, now 10,703,117, issued on Jul. 7, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2017-046414 (JP), filed on Mar. 10, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2024/0025191 A1, Jan. 25, 2024
Int. Cl. B41J 15/04 (2006.01); B41J 11/00 (2006.01); B65H 16/02 (2006.01); B65H 16/08 (2006.01); B65H 19/10 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 15/046 (2013.01) [B41J 11/0095 (2013.01); B41J 15/042 (2013.01); B65H 16/021 (2013.01); B65H 16/08 (2013.01); B65H 19/105 (2013.01); B41J 11/006 (2013.01); B65H 2301/41376 (2013.01); B65H 2301/41394 (2013.01); B65H 2403/942 (2013.01); B65H 2553/414 (2013.01)] 33 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sheet feeding apparatus, comprising:
a holding unit configured to rotatably hold a roll with a continuous sheet wound in a roll form;
a driving unit configured to rotate the roll held by the holding unit in a first direction for feeding a sheet from the roll and in a second direction opposite to the first direction;
a lower guide configured to guide the sheet of the roll from below;
a first contact unit supported by the lower guide and configured to contact the roll;
a second contact unit configured to contact the roll at a contact position above the lower guide;
a detection unit configured to detect a sheet end of the roll;
a sensor configured to detect setting of the holding unit; and
a control unit configured to, after the detection unit has detected the sheet end which has passed through the contact position while the driving unit is rotating, in the second direction, the roll which the first contact unit contacts, cause the driving unit to start rotation of the roll in the first direction for feeding the sheet based on the detection result of the sheet end.