US 11,738,963 B2
Image forming apparatus
Yusuke Takano, Osaka (JP)
Assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc., Osaka (JP)
Appl. No. 17/274,217
Filed by KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc., Osaka (JP)
PCT Filed Jul. 9, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/027192
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 8, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/054198, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 19, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-171584 (JP), filed on Sep. 13, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0347595 A1, Nov. 11, 2021
Int. Cl. B65H 31/26 (2006.01); B65H 29/24 (2006.01); B65H 31/38 (2006.01)
CPC B65H 31/26 (2013.01) [B65H 29/245 (2013.01); B65H 31/38 (2013.01); B65H 2404/5211 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
a discharge port through which a sheet having an image is discharged;
a sheet stacking plate on which the sheet discharged through the discharge port is stacked;
a pair of cursors supported on the sheet stacking plate in a slidable manner in width directions perpendicular to a discharge direction of the sheet and coming into contact with both side edges of the sheet;
a cursor driver driving the pair of cursors;
a pair of blowers provided in the pair of cursors so as to blow air to both corners on an upstream side in the discharge direction of the sheet which is discharged through the discharge port, from above; and
a controller controlling the cursor driver and the pair of blowers, wherein
the controller includes a storage part which stores a falling time from when both the corners of the sheet are discharged through the discharge port to when both the corners of the sheet fall below the pair of blowers, for each thickness and each size of the sheet, and
the controller drives the pair of blowers after the falling time corresponding to a thickness and a size of the sheet discharged through the discharge port elapses.