US 12,466,678 B2
Sheet conveyance apparatus and image forming apparatus
Toshiyuki Iwata, Chiba (JP)
Assigned to CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Nov. 7, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/503,577.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-180328 (JP), filed on Nov. 10, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0158193 A1, May 16, 2024
Int. Cl. B65H 7/12 (2006.01)
CPC B65H 7/12 (2013.01) [B65H 2513/10 (2013.01); B65H 2553/30 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sheet conveyance apparatus comprising:
a sheet conveyance unit configured to convey a sheet;
a double feeding detection unit configured to detect double feeding with respect to a sheet conveyed by the sheet conveyance unit;
a first sheet detection unit configured to detect a sheet conveyed by the sheet conveyance unit; and
a control unit configured to control a conveyance speed of a sheet conveyed by the sheet conveyance unit at a first speed and a second speed which is slower than the first speed and at which the sheet is in motion,
wherein the control unit is configured to
control the sheet conveyance unit to decelerate the conveyance speed of a sheet conveyed by the sheet conveyance unit from the first speed to the second speed based on a detection result of the first sheet detection unit, and
control the double feeding detection unit to execute a double feeding detecting operation with respect to the sheet that is conveyed at the second speed by the sheet conveyance unit.