Patent ID: 9382090
Filing Date: 2016-07-05
CPC Classification: B65H,G03G

Claim Text:
1. An image forming apparatus comprising: an apparatus body in which an opening portion is formed; an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet; a plurality of sheet storage units, wherein each sheet storage unit is configured to store, inside the apparatus body, the sheet with the image formed thereon by the image forming unit; a sheet moving unit provided in each of the plurality of sheet storage units, and configured to move the sheet stored therein and then stop the sheet in an exposed state where the sheet is partly exposed, from the opening portion, to an outside of the apparatus body; and a control unit configured to control each sheet moving unit, wherein, in a case where a first sheet, stored in a first sheet storage unit among the plurality of sheet storage units, and a second sheet, stored in a second sheet storage unit different from the first sheet storage unit among the plurality of sheet storage units, are brought into contact with each other and then exposed from the opening portion to the outside of the apparatus body in the exposed state, when a moving distance of the first sheet to bring the first sheet into the exposed state and a moving distance of the second sheet to bring the second sheet into the exposed state are different from each other, the control unit controls sheet moving units provided in the first sheet storage unit and the second sheet storage unit to change a movement start timing of the first sheet relative to a movement start timing of the second sheet or to change a moving speed of the first sheet relative to a moving speed of the second sheet, based on the moving distance of the first sheet and the moving distance of the second sheet.