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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a paper delivery apparatus and an image forming apparatus including the paper delivery apparatus carrying out optimum stiffening for the size and thickness of paper with simple configuration. SOLUTION: The paper delivery apparatus equipped to the image forming apparatus includes a paper delivery roller 81 delivering paper after image formation; stiffening members 83a, 83b stiffening the paper; stiffening member moving means 84a, 84b moving at least a pair of stiffening members in a line symmetry in a main scanning direction orthogonal to a paper conveying direction and parallel with the axial direction of the paper delivery roller 81; and a paper information acquiring means acquiring paper information. The paper delivery apparatus further includes a position change control means changing the moving positions of the stiffening members according to the acquisition result of the paper information acquiring means, thereby carrying out stiffening in optimal positions to various paper sizes and thickness with simple the configuration. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem that even when the ink temperature does not follow a change in environmental temperature, as a correction for deviation of a striking position is performed, a useless correcting operation is performed and a useless consumption of the ink and down time of an apparatus are generated. SOLUTION: When an adjusting pattern 400 for detecting the deviation of a striking position is formed on a conveying belt 31, and is read by a pattern reading sensor 401 carried on a carriage 23, and based on the reading result, the correcting operation for correcting the deviation of the striking position of liquid droplets from a recording head 24 is performed, if a difference between the environmental temperature detected by a first temperature detecting means 801 and the ink temperature detected by a second temperature detecting means 802 is not larger than a first specified value, the correcting operation is executed, but the difference exceeds the first specified value, no correcting operation is performed. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image formation device capable of exactly detecting a deposition of ink and existence of a bubble in a cap member of a maintenance and recovery mechanism and a trial jet receptacle. SOLUTION: The image formation device has a recording head jetting a liquid drop, a carriage with the recording head, an optical sensor mounted on the carriage, the maintenance and recovery mechanism containing a cap member by which a nozzle surface of the recording head is capped and maintaining and recovering the state of the recording head, and a means of detecting a change of the shape of the cap member by comparing an amount of returned reflected light in case of irradiating irradiation light to the cap member of the maintenance and recovery mechanism with a preliminarily held initial return amount by a sensor by scanning the carriage. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem of the impossible execution of the highly accurate correction of the slippage of impact positions due to the lowering of the reading accuracy of a pattern by the change of surface conditions under the state that the impact position correcting pattern is formed on a conveying belt. SOLUTION: In the pre-scanning of the pattern forming positions of the conveying belt 31 with a reading sensor 401, when the output of the sensor is higher than its threshold value, the pattern forming position is determined to be in a regularly reflected ray region, in which regularly reflected ray becomes higher than diffusingly reflected ray and an adjusting pattern 400 to form is set to be a first adjusting pattern 1401, in which the regularly reflected ray becomes lower than the diffusingly reflected ray, while when the output of the sensor is lower than its threshold value, the pattern forming position is determined to be in a diffusingly reflected ray region, in which the regularly reflected ray becomes lower than the diffusingly reflected ray and an adjusting pattern 400 to form is set to be a second adjusting pattern 1402, in which the regularly reflected ray becomes higher than the diffusingly reflected ray so as to form the set adjusting pattern 400 in order to read the pattern 400 with the reading sensor 401. The correction of the slippage of impact positions by correcting a droplet discharging timing or the like is executed in response to the read result. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
摘要:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve a problem such as the impossibility of easy and highly accurate detection of the deviation of a gap between the nozzle surface of a recording head and a carrying surface. SOLUTION: After a reference pattern 400a is formed on a conveyor belt 31 by delivering ink droplets 500 from the recording head 24 under the state that a carriage 23 is stopped at a predetermined position, while travelling the carriage 23, a pattern to be measured 400b is formed on the conveyor belt 31 by delivering the ink droplets 500 from the recording head so as to lay it on the top of the reference pattern 400a to read the respective patterns 400a and 400b with a pattern reading sensor 401 in order to calculate the deviation of the gap between the nozzle surface of the recording head 24 and the surface of the conveyor belt 31 from the amount of slur between the two patterns. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image recorder that can maintain the running cost without lowering the productivity and can control forming of an image by readily and precisely detecting a defective ejection nozzle without bothering a user. SOLUTION: This image recorder 30A comprises a memory medium 20 for storing input image data, an image forming means for forming an image on a recording medium 2 by ejecting ink from a recording head 1 according to the image data, and an image reading section 5 for reading the output image formed on the recording medium 2. The image recorder 30A further comprises an image evaluating section 24 for comparing input image data stored in the memory medium 20 with an output image data read by the image reading section 5 and a control section 6 for controlling the recording head 1 based on the output of the image evaluating section 24. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus for folding a paper sheet the productivity of which can be improved.SOLUTION: The apparatus for folding the paper sheet includes: a blade member by the tip of which the surface of the paper sheet is pressed to push the pressed paper sheet into a paper sheet folding part by which the paper sheet is folded; and a pair of clamping members which are arranged in the paper sheet folding part and used for clamping the paper sheet pushed into the paper sheet folding part by the blade member. The paper sheet is clamped and folded by the pair of clamping members. The apparatus for folding the paper sheet further includes a control means for controlling the pair of clamping members so that the paper sheet can be clamped between the pair of clamping members while changing a clamping position according to a direction that the paper sheet is pushed by the blade member, namely, so that the clamping position may be moved to the same direction as the direction that the paper sheet is pushed by the blade member or the clamping position may be moved to a direction opposite to the direction that the paper sheet is pushed by the blade member.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To avoid the trouble that printing-out is interrupted by an encoder signal error generated because of an encoder life at an unexpected timing, leading to a downtime from generation of the error to replacement of the encoder. SOLUTION: The light amount of a light source is reduced to a detection limit where an output pulse of the optical encoder is missed at a check time point, and a critical light amount is obtained (S105). An integrated use amount of ink at the time is calculated (S106) and stored in pairs in a storage medium. A curve showing a relationship between the critical light amount and the ink integrated use amount is approximated from a history of these amounts stored in pairs at each check time point (S109). An expectancy of how much can be used until the currently obtained critical light amount reaches a light amount of a preliminarily set life is expressed by the integrated amount of ink on the basis of the obtained estimation life function. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problems of failing to detect a precise position of a pattern and to correct misalignment of a landing position of liquid droplets when the frequency component occurring from scratches caused by paper dust present on a belt surface or from smudge caused by ink mist and a frequency component of a pattern become the same in a cases of forming a pattern on a conveyor belt for use in detecting displacement of landing positions of liquid droplets. SOLUTION: An image forming apparatus performs a frequency analysis by calculating the frequency of the belt surface and the amplitude of the respective frequency components based on the result of reading at the time of scanning on the conveyor belt 31 by means of a reading sensor before a pattern 400 is printed, calculates only the frequency component exceeding a predetermined level as a peak frequency, with respect to the belt surface frequency components and the amplitude of the respective frequency components obtained, forms the frequency pattern 400 different from the peak frequency of the surface of the conveyor belt, reads the pattern 400 by means of the reading sensor 401 and corrects the displacement of landing positions of liquid droplets from the recording head 24 on the basis of the reading result. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To attach a reflection type optical sensor to a side wall face of a carriage formed of a resin by injection molding in a simple structure such that the optical sensor is inclined with respect to a direction perpendicular to a detection face of the optical sensor at an small angle. SOLUTION: Two first projections 231, 231 and one second projection 232 for defining an inclination of the reflection type optical sensor 401 in the vertical direction are provided on the side wall face 230 of the carriage 23. The first projections 231, 231 are provided at respective vertical positions having the same height from the detection face as a reference and the second projection 232 is provided at a vertical position higher than the vertical position of the first projection 231 on the basis of the detection face as a reference. The second projection 232 has a first part 232a whose height from the side wall face 230 is greater than that of the first projection 231 and a second part 232b whose height from the side wall face 230 is smaller than that of the first projection 232a. A screw hole 234 that allows a fastening member (a screw) 459 for fixing the optical sensor 401 to be threaded thereinto is provided on the second part 232b. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT