US 12,116,236 B2
Feeding device, image forming apparatus, and feeding method
Shinya Harada, Kanagawa (JP); Shinichi Kawai, Kanagawa (JP); and Tomoyasu Tanaka, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Nov. 25, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/535,665.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-091356 (JP), filed on May 31, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0380156 A1, Dec. 1, 2022
Int. Cl. B65H 1/14 (2006.01); B65H 7/20 (2006.01); B65H 5/06 (2006.01)
CPC B65H 7/20 (2013.01) [B65H 1/14 (2013.01); B65H 5/068 (2013.01); B65H 2301/4434 (2013.01); B65H 2601/322 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
14. An image forming apparatus comprising:
an accommodation unit that accommodates paper;
a feeding tray on which the paper is placed in the accommodation unit and that is controlled so as to be lifted and lowered in a case of being replenished with the paper;
a feeding roller that feeds the paper placed on an uppermost portion of the feeding tray one by one;
an image output unit that outputs an image to the fed paper; and
a processor configured to:
determine a lifting and lowering speed of the feeding tray according to an operation by a user, and
perform control such that a lifting and lowering speed of the feeding tray becomes slower than the determined lifting and lowering speed in a case of a state where the determined lifting and lowering speed of the feeding tray is unable to be realized.