Abstract:
A power supply device includes: a power supply circuit that converts an AC voltage into a DC voltage; and a control circuit that controls the power supply circuit, wherein the power supply circuit includes: a rectifying and smoothing circuit that rectifies and smoothes the AC voltage; a first voltage converting circuit that converts the voltage and outputs a first DC voltage; a second voltage converting circuit that switches the first DC voltage by a switching circuit to output a second DC voltage; a feedback circuit that detects and feeds back an output voltage of the first voltage converting circuit; and a selection circuit that switches a reference voltage of the feedback circuit, and the control circuit sets the switching circuit to be in a continuous connection state when a normal mode is shifted to a power saving mode and gradually switches the reference voltage.
Abstract:
An image forming apparatus has a pad type fixing device in which a lubricant is interposed between a fixing belt for heating a sheet and a pad for holding the fixing belt, and includes: a controller that controls a heater of the fixing belt to maintain a fixing temperature to be set in accordance with printing modes, at a set temperature; an acquisitor that acquires torque of a motor for rotating the fixing belt as acquired torque for each of the set temperatures; a transition predictor that predicts transition of the torque of the motor for each of the set temperatures based on the acquired torque; and a point predictor that predicts a point at which at least two transition curves based on the predicted transition intersect each other as a torque rise point at which the torque of the motor starts rising due to a decrease in the lubricant.
Abstract:
An image forming device includes: a conductive roller that abuts the image carrier to rotate; a power supply circuit that applies voltage to the roller; a controller that controls the power supply circuit so as to apply the voltage to the roller over a predetermined detection period in a state in which the image carrier and the roller are rotated; a detection value acquirer that acquires a detection value acquired by the application of the voltage indicating a state of the image carrier in the detection period; and a state detector that detects a state of the image carrier on the basis of a plurality of acquired detection values, wherein a length of the detection period is set to a length at which both the numbers of rotations of the image carrier and the roller from a start of the detection period are integers.
Abstract:
A power supply device including: a transformer generating, from an input voltage, low output voltage and high output voltage; an upper limiter circuit receiving the high output voltage and controlling the high output voltage not to exceed a maximum; a power controller performing feedback control on the input voltage so that the low output voltage matches a target voltage; an operation mode acquirer configured to acquire an operation mode of an image forming device; and a target value controller configured to change the target voltage depending upon the acquired operation mode. The target voltage when consumption amount of current with the high output voltage is relatively great ensures that the high output voltage does not fall below a minimum of a rated voltage range of the high output voltage, and is higher than the target voltage when consumption amount of current with the high output voltage is relatively small.
Abstract:
An image display and photographing system includes a display device configured to display a target image on a surface; a photographing device configured to photograph the surface; a first detector configured to detect that an object moves away from a space between the surface and the photographing device; a second detector configured to detect that, after the first detector detects that the object moves away from the space, the surface is touched at a predetermined position; a third detector configured to detect that, after the second detector detects that the surface is touched at the predetermined position, the object moves away from the space; and a photographing control portion configured to control, after the third detector detects that the object moves away from the space, the photographing device to photograph the surface.
Abstract:
An image forming apparatus, includes: a media sensor that detects a sheet type; a fixer that fixes the image on a sheet; a storage that stores a fixing temperature for each sheet type; and a hardware processor that controls power supplied to the fixer by pulse-width modulation (PWM) control and controls a temperature of the fixer to the fixing temperature corresponding to the sheet type detected by the media sensor.
Abstract:
An image forming apparatus forms an image on a sheet, and includes: a rotator used to form the image; a motor that drives the rotator rotationally; a current measurer that measures motor current flowing through a current-carrying path including a winding of the motor, at measurement timing that is timing after the motor starts up; a torque acquirer that acquires a torque value of the motor based on a measured value of the motor current; and a corrector that performs correction for cancellation of an amount of error based on one or both of a variation in characteristic corresponding to motor speed of the motor and a variation in characteristic corresponding to the motor current at the measurement timing, at the acquisition of the torque value by the torque acquirer.
Abstract:
A photographing system includes a photographing device configured to photograph a surface; a detector configured to detect a change in a position of an object in a space between the surface and the photographing device; and an obtaining portion configured to obtain an image of an area of the surface by the photographing device when the detector detects the change, the area being not viewed by the photographing device before the change due to interruption of the object and being viewed by the photographing device after the change.
Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes: a plurality of image forming units forming an image in the corresponding color by electrophotographic system; a high-voltage power supply circuit capable of generating a bias voltage; and a control unit that controls a first printing mode and a second printing mode, wherein in the second printing mode, the control unit performs such control that the photosensitive bodies provided on the image forming units not used in the second printing mode continuously rotate at a speed lower than a speed in the first printing mode, and/or such control that a bias voltage whose absolute value is less than an absolute value of a bias voltage in the first printing mode is supplied from the high-voltage power supply circuit to the processing components of the same type provided on the image forming units not used in the second printing mode.