Patent ID: 8660476

Claim:
An image formation device, comprising: a housing formed with a discharge opening through which a sheet is discharged from the image formation device; an image formation unit configured to form an image on the sheet; a fixing unit configured to fix an image, which was transferred onto the sheet, on the sheet; a sheet feed path which guides the sheet from the fixing unit to the discharge opening; a sheet feed roller arranged in the sheet feed path; a sheet discharge roller arranged at a position in the sheet feed path and between the discharge opening and the sheet feed roller; a motor configured to drive the sheet feed roller and the sheet discharge roller; a reverse path which diverges from a diverging point at a position in the sheet feed path between the sheet feed roller and the fixing unit; and a controller configured to: control the motor to rotate the sheet feed roller and the sheet discharge roller in a first direction so that the sheet is fed from the fixing unit to the discharge opening at a first speed V 1 ; control the motor to rotate the sheet feed roller and the sheet discharge roller in a second direction so that the sheet is fed from the discharge opening to the diverging point at a second speed V 2 if the sheet has entirely reached a discharge opening side of the diverging point; and change a feeding speed to a third speed V 3 if the sheet has reached a position where it is nipped by the sheet feed roller after the sheet was started to be fed at the second speed V 2 , wherein the first speed V 1 , the second speed V 2 , and the third speed V 3 have the following relationships, | V 1 |<|V 2 |<|V 3|.