Abstract:
A fabricating apparatus includes a temperature measuring device, a heating device, and circuitry. The temperature measuring device is configured to measure a temperature of a fabrication material layer. The heating device is configured to heat the fabrication material layer. The circuitry is configured to control the heating device with a heating amount for heating the fabricating material layer to a temperature at which the fabricating material layer melts, based on the temperature measured by the temperature measuring device.
Abstract:
A fabricating apparatus includes a heater, a discharger, and circuitry. The heater is configured to heat a first fabrication material layer formed of a fabrication material. The discharger is configured to discharge a molten fabrication material onto the first fabrication material layer heated by the heater, to stack a second fabrication material layer on the first fabrication material layer. The circuitry is configured to control a heating of the heater according to shape data so that the first fabrication material layer does not exceed a threshold temperature defined by the fabrication material when the heater heats the first fabrication material layer.
Abstract:
An image forming apparatus that can reduce the number of signal lines that can respond to interrupt processing by conducting I/O control that can acquire irregularly generated sensor detection signals. Identification control means of the image forming apparatus uses the data line in the period other than when conducting identification control of the detection means or the drive means to acquire the data of the specified detection means as valid data. Delay of the detection response time to irregularly generated signals can be minimized by using the data line other than when conducting identification control of the detection means or the drive means to acquire irregularly generated detection signals.
Abstract:
The image-forming apparatus has a plurality of detectors for outputting detection data comprising detection results of the operating statuses of a plurality of component members constituting the image-forming apparatus, and detection results of various types of detection sensors inside and outside of the image-forming apparatus. Furthermore, the image-forming apparatus is provided with one data line for supplying detection data to an image-forming controller; one identification signal line for supplying an identification signal, which specifies one detector from among the plurality of detectors, from the image-forming controller; one time-interval signal line for supplying a time-interval signal, which specifies a validation time-interval for the identification signal, and a validation time-interval for the detection data; and a detection identification controller, which identifies a pertinent detector based on the identification signal and the time-interval signal, validates only detection data of the identified detector, and supplies the detection data to the image-forming controller via the data line.
Abstract:
An image forming apparatus in which image warp and shift are able to be more precisely suppressed to prevent the deterioration of image quality, including a fluctuation amount detection device for detecting at a fixed cycle sampling point the belt fluctuation amount of an intermediate transfer body from a reference position in the direction orthogonal to the running direction of the intermediate transfer body or the main scanning direction, and a control unit which, in accordance with belt fluctuation amount data that expresses the belt fluctuation amount detected by the fluctuation amount detection device, corrects start position data that expresses the write start position data in the main scanning direction of the write device, and alters the fixed cycle sampling point when the amount of change in the belt fluctuation amount data in adjacent sampling points of the fixed cycle sampling points is greater than a value set in advance.
Abstract:
An image forming apparatus capable of decreasing the image unevenness of a superimposed image at the time of forming starting (head) lines of the images in respective colors with different beams in order to decrease a shift of a superimposed image. Let a position, where an image in a first color is formed with a beam A as a leading beam, be (a). Let a starting position of formation of an image in a second color be (b), and one dot (line) of shift arises in the superimposed image. In order to decrease the shift of the superimposed image, image formation is performed with selecting a beam B as a beam which writes a head of the image (c). When image formation is performed for color shift reduction with changing a leading beam for each color image, tonality correction is performed to each beam for subsequent images so as to decrease image unevenness due to the difference between shapes and exposure power of respective beams.
Abstract:
An image clock signal generating system generates an image clock signal which is used to enable and disable a scan of an optical scanner, and comprises a phase locked loop (PLL) circuit for generating an image clock signal in response to a reference pulse signal which comprises a plurality of pulses during a time corresponding to a scan range of the optical scanner and no pulses during a time corresponding to a no-scan range of the optical scanner. The PLL circuit includes a phase comparator which receives the reference pulse signal and a feedback signal and outputs a phase error signal dependent on a phase error between the two signals, a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) for outputting an image clock signal, and an initial phase matching circuit for outputting the feedback signal in response to the image clock signal output from the VCO. The initial phase matching circuit outputs the feedback signal with an initial phase which makes the phase error between the reference pulse signal and the feedback signal approximately the same as a predetermined phase error detected in the phase comparator when the PLL circuit is in a locked state.
Abstract:
A semiconductor laser control apparatus for controlling an optical output of a semiconductor laser comprises a correcting part supplied with a modulation signal which determines ON and OFF states of the semiconductor laser for outputting a processed modulation signal, and a driving circuit supplied with the processed modulation signal from the correcting part for supplying a driving signal to the semiconductor laser. The correcting part includes a differentiating circuit responsive to the processed modulation signal for supplying a correction signal having a predetermined time constant to the driving circuit when the semiconductor laser is ON so as to maintain the optical output of the semiconductor laser constant, and a pulse width correcting circuit for correcting a pulse width of the modulation signal to obtain the processed modulation signal. The processed modulation signal is supplied to the driving circuit so that the semiconductor laser is ON and operates until a time which is delayed by a predetermined delay time from an operation end time determined by the modulation signal.
Abstract:
A fabricating apparatus is configured to fabricate a three-dimensional object, the apparatus includes a discharging device, a heating device, and control circuitry. The discharging device is configured to discharge a fabrication material to form a fabrication material layer. The heating device is configured to heat the fabrication material layer formed by the discharging device. The control circuitry is configured to control at least one of a heating range of the fabrication material layer heated by the heating device and a heating energy applied to the fabrication material layer by the heating device when the discharging device discharges the fabrication material to laminate another fabrication material layer on the fabrication material layer heated by the heating device.
Abstract:
A fabricating apparatus includes a heater, a discharger, and circuitry. The heater is configured to heat a first fabrication material layer formed of a fabrication material. The discharger is configured to discharge a melted fabrication material onto the first fabrication material layer heated by the heater, to stack a second fabrication material layer on the first fabrication material layer. The circuitry is configured to control a heating amount of the heater according to shape data when the heater heats the first fabrication material layer.