摘要:
An optical encoder comprising a light-receiving part having photodiodes equal in number to the common multiplier of a number of slits facing the light-receiving part and a number of movement information signals. Output terminals of the photodiodes are connected so that the movement information signals are respectively obtained by adding output signals of the plurality of photodiodes out of the photodiodes equal in number to the common multiplier. The twelve photodiodes are balancedly arranged corresponding to three slits and a light-receiving area of each photodiode is made smaller by subdiving each photodiode. The optical encoder suppress difference, distortion and variance of the movement information signals or the like obtained from the light-receiving part with the result that accurate movement information is obtained.
摘要:
An optical encoder comprising a light-receiving part having photodiodes equal in number to the common multiplier of a number of slits facing the light-receiving part and a number of movement information signals. Output terminals of the photodiodes are connected so that the movement information signals are respectively obtained by adding output signals of the plurality of photodiodes out of the photodiodes equal in number to the common multiplier. The twelve photodiodes are balancedly arranged corresponding to three slits and a light-receiving area of each photodiode is made smaller by subdiving each photodiode. The optical encoder suppress difference, distortion and variance of the movement information signals or the like obtained from the light-receiving part with the result that accurate movement information is obtained.
摘要:
A power supply controlling apparatus includes a first power supply unit that supplies DC power to a load using power supplied from a commercial power supply, a power detecting unit that detects an input voltage and an input current input from the commercial power supply to the first power supply unit, and a control unit that controls the input current to be a constant current having an upper limit current value in response to the input voltage by controlling DC power supplied to the load from the first power supply unit based on the input voltage and the input current which are detected by the power detecting unit.
摘要:
In a fixing device, a fixing unit fixes a toner image transferred onto a recording medium by a heating target unit heated by a plurality of heating units each of which is grouped as a first heating unit to which power is selectively supplied or a second heating unit to which power is supplied in priority to the first heating unit, and a supply control unit supplies power to a heating unit grouped as the second heating unit and selectively supplies power to a heating unit grouped as the first heating unit, among the heating units that heat the heating target unit of which detected temperature by a detecting unit is lower than a target temperature.
摘要:
This optical encoder includes a light emitting section and a plurality of light receiving elements placed so as to be aligned in one direction in an area where a light beam from the light emitting section may reach. The moving object includes a light-ON section and a light-OFF section. The light receiving element detects movement of the moving object when the light-ON section and the light-OFF section of the moving object pass through a predetermined position corresponding to the light receiving element A light receiving signal processing section receives inputs of a plurality of light receiving signals with different phases from a plurality of the light receiving elements, performs signal processing including at least one signal processing among a logical operation processing, an addition processing, and a subtraction processing on a plurality of the light receiving signals, and outputs an output signal containing a plurality of signal components which are different in phase and different in signal level with respect to a predetermined threshold level.
摘要:
A decoder device has a reference voltage generating section for outputting first and second threshold level signals, a first comparator for comparing a stair-stepped waveform input signal and the first threshold level signal to output a comparison result, a second comparator for comparing the input signal and the second threshold level signal to output a comparison result, and a logical operation section for performing a logical operation between output signals of the first and second comparators to output a signal decoded from the input signal. A threshold level represented by the first threshold level signal intersects a riser section of one stepped waveform out of two adjacent stepped waveforms in the input signal, and a threshold level represented by the second threshold level signal intersects a riser section of the other stepped waveform out of the two adjacent stepped waveforms of the stair-stepped waveform input signal.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus includes a cover, a switch that opens or closes in conjunction with the cover, a load unit, a load power supply device that supplies power to the load unit, a relay that passes power from the load power supply device to the load unit in conjunction with the switch, and a controller that detects opening or closing of the switch and controls the load power supply device according to a detection result. When opening of the switch is detected, the load power supply device is controlled to interrupt supplying power to the load unit until closing of the switch is detected.
摘要:
An optical encoder includes a mobile object having a plurality of aligned slits, a light-emitting portion for emitting light toward the mobile object, and a light-receiving portion 103 for receiving the light which has passed the mobile object. The light-receiving portion 103 produces an AC (Alternating Current) signal in an oscillation circuit 111 and outputs an input current, which is changed to an AC, from a light-emitting current output circuit 112 into the light-emitting portion.
摘要:
An electric power supplying device includes a main power supply that supplies electric power to each component of an apparatus, an auxiliary power supply that supplies electric power to an assisted component in the apparatus, the assisted component requiring power supply during start-up time of the apparatus and having a whose start-up time being equal to or longer than a predetermined period of time, a discharging control circuit that controls the auxiliary power supply to cause the auxiliary power supply to output a voltage, the output voltage being lower than a voltage output by the main power supply and being equal to or more than a lower limit voltage of a voltage range that the assisted component is operable, and a power supply prevention circuit that prevents the auxiliary power supply from supplying power to a component other than the assisted component in the apparatus.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus includes a heating unit, a storage unit, and a setting unit. The heating unit uses electric power and performs a heating operation in accordance with a print condition specified in a print job to thermally fix a developer onto a recording medium. The storage unit stores therein output priorities, which are determined for different print conditions based on power consumption in a heating operation, so as to be associated with their corresponding print conditions. In outputting a plurality of print jobs having different print conditions successively, the setting unit sets output order of the print jobs to be output in accordance with the output priorities.