摘要:
An effective image area can be properly corrected in accordance with the quantity of light from an irradiation unit (41) by selecting, as the effective image area, pixels having light quantities more than or equal to a threshold value that allows accurate acquisition of a surface image of a recording medium (P), on the basis of a light quantity distribution of the light from the irradiation unit (41). This reduces the influence of mounting accuracy of the irradiation unit (41), and allows the recording medium (P) to be identified accurately.
摘要:
A paper conveying apparatus (50) includes a gate member (13), resist rollers (14), a detector (16), and a moving member (19). The gate member (13) closes a paper conveyance path to position a leading edge of paper (8). The resist rollers (14) are provided near the gate member on an upstream. side in a paper conveyance direction and timely convey the paper downstream of the gate member in the paper conveyance direction. The detector (16) is provided near the gate member on a downstream side in the paper conveyance direction and detects misalignment at an edge portion of the paper in a paper width direction perpendicular to the paper conveyance direction. The moving member (19) moves the resist rollers in the paper width direction by changing a drive mode and a relation speed of a motor (33) according to a paper misalignment amount (d) detected by the detector. The motor causes the resist rollers to move.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus of the present invention includes an apparatus body to which a conveying unit is removably mounted. A belt is used to convey a paper sheet. A sensor includes a light emitting portion for emitting light toward the belt and a photosensitive portion to which the light from the belt is incident. One of the light emitting portion and photosensitive portion is mounted on the conveying unit while the other is mounted on the apparatus body. A positioning device causes, in interlocked relation to the mounting operation of the conveying unit to the apparatus body, the optical portion mounted on the apparatus body to move in accordance with the position and/or the configuration of the conveying unit and be positioned relative to the belt. Therefore, only the conveying unit and optical portion should be positioned relative to each other.
摘要:
A sheet end detector 10, made from a light-emitting element 11 and a light-receiving element 12, detecting changes in the amount of light associated with movement of a recording paper; a standard value calculation means 24, detecting an amount of difference (Vm - Vp) between said sheet end detector 10 platen voltage Vp resulting from light reflected from a sheet guide and said sheet end detector 10 paper saturation voltage Vm resulting from light reflected from a recording paper, and calculating a standard value Vs= [(Vm - Vp) x C] + Vm by multiplying by a constant coefficient C greater than 0 and less than 1; and a comparing means 25, comparing said standard value and a signal from said sheet end detector 10 and recognizing a point in time when said signal corresponds to said standard level as being indicative of the presence of a leading edge or trailing edge of a recording paper, are provided. The amount of paper feeding necessary for platen voltage Vp to reach standard value Vsa, Vsb is a constant value Nt - Ns irrespective of paper characteristics. As standard value Vs is a constant value, the point in time when this amount of light is reached is the point in time when the end portion of a recording paper has reached a constant sheet end detector relative position Nt, Nb.
摘要:
An imaging apparatus equipped with a path for moving receiver sheets through the apparatus, has infrared sensors (18a, 18b, 18c) situated along said path. If a substantially transparent receiver sheet (15), having coated on at least a portion thereof an infrared absorbing material contained in a polymeric binder, passes along the path, the infrared sensors detect the presence of the infrared absorbing material on the substantially transparent receiver sheet. This process enables the use of substantially transparent receiver sheets in imaging apparatuses employing optical sensors or detectors for locating and/or positioning receiver sheets in the apparatus without the need for opaque strips on the transparencies or separate opaque sheets attached to the transparencies.
摘要:
An apparatus which determines the location of an edge of an advancing sheet and discriminates between the edge and a hole in the sheet. After the leading edge of the sheet is detected by a sensor (108) and the sheet has moved a first predetermined distance, the absence or presence of the sheet is sensed for a second predetermined distance. If the sheet is not detected as it moves the second predetermined distance, the control logic (114) indicates that the trailing edge has been detected. In the event the sheet is sensed, the control logic indicates that a hole has been detected and the process is repeated to locate the trailing edge.
摘要:
This invention relates to a sheet sensor comprising a light source (62) coupled to an optical waveguide (60) arranged to direct light at the path of the sheet (54). At least a second waveguide is arranged to receive light after transmission through, or reflection from, the light. A transducer converts the received light into an electrical signal which indicates the presence or the absence of a sheet in the path. Both the light source and the «transmission» waveguide are secured to each other and to a common substrate (64).
摘要:
A sensor apparatus (100, 200, 300, 2245) includes an irradiation system (11, 12) with a light source (11) configured to emit linearly polarized light of a first polarization direction onto a sheet-like object (M), in a direction oblique to a direction orthogonal to a surface of the object (M), a first photodetector (15) arranged on an optical path of light that is emitted from the irradiation system (11, 12) and then is reflected at the object (M) by regular reflection, a first optical element (14), arranged on an optical path of light reflected by diffuse reflection from an incidence plane of the object (M), configured to transmit linearly polarized light of a second polarization direction that is orthogonal to the first polarization direction, a second photodetector (13) configured to receive light passed through the first optical element (14), and a detection unit (13t) configured to detect at least one of basis weight and thickness of the object (M).