Patent ID: 7356285

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: a first driving section having a feed mechanism; a second driving section having a delivery mechanism; a first motor to drive the first driving section; a second motor having an output different from the first motor to drive the second driving section; and a controller to control a power supplied to one of the first and second motors having a higher output to be cut off earlier by a predetermined compensation time than a power supplied to the other one of the first and second motors having a lower output when stopping the first and second motors, wherein the first and second motors stop concurrently the compensation time is equal to or shorter than a difference |T 1 âˆ’T 2 | between a first stop time T 1 required to actually stop the first motor after cut-off of the power supplied to the first motor and a second stop time T 2 required to actually stop the second motor after cut-off of the power supplied to the second motor.