LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS AND ABNORMALITY DETECTION METHOD CAPABLE OF DETECTING ABNORMALITY OF NOZZLE

    公开(公告)号:US20240109288A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-04

    申请号:US18476136

    申请日:2023-09-27

    CPC classification number: B41J2/0451 B41J2/04581

    Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes a nozzle, a pressure chamber, a piezoelectric element, an acquisition processing portion, and a restriction processing portion. The nozzle ejects a liquid. The pressure chamber communicates with the nozzle and contains the liquid. The piezoelectric element changes a pressure in the pressure chamber in response to an input of a drive signal. When image formation processing for ejecting the liquid from the nozzle is executed based on image data, the acquisition processing portion acquires a length of a non-ejection period in which the liquid is not ejected from the nozzle, the non-ejection period being included in an execution period of the image formation processing. When the length of the non-ejection period acquired by the acquisition processing portion is less than a predetermined first threshold value, the restriction processing portion restricts abnormality detection processing for detecting an abnormality of the nozzle using the piezoelectric element.

    Fixing device, image forming apparatus and method of controlling fixing device
    2.
    发明授权
    Fixing device, image forming apparatus and method of controlling fixing device 有权
    固定装置,图像形成装置和控制定影装置的方法

    公开(公告)号:US09323194B1

    公开(公告)日:2016-04-26

    申请号:US14952328

    申请日:2015-11-25

    Inventor: Satoshi Morimoto

    CPC classification number: G03G15/2039 G01K7/22 G01K13/08 G03G15/2042 G03G15/55

    Abstract: A fixing device includes: a sensor circuit portion which includes a plurality of series circuits of thermistors and capacitors and in which the capacitors differ from each other in capacitance; a signal circuit portion to which each sensor output voltage that is a voltage between the thermistor and the capacitor is input and which switches between output levels each time the sensor output voltage that exceeds a threshold value is increased; and a processing circuit that includes a output port to which the series circuits are connected so as to be parallel to each other and an input port and that recognizes a target temperature to be detected with each of the thermistors based on a rising time since the start of the voltage application to each of the series circuits until the output signal rises and a falling time until the output signal falls that are measured.

    Abstract translation: 定影装置包括:传感器电路部分,其包括热敏电阻和电容器的多个串联电路,并且其中电容器彼此不同; 输入作为热敏电阻和电容器之间的电压的每个传感器输出电压的信号电路部分,并且每当超过阈值的传感器输出电压增加时在每个输出电平之间切换; 以及处理电路,其包括串联电路相互并联连接的输出端口和输入端口,并且基于从开始起的上升时间,基于每个热敏电阻识别要检测的目标温度 直到输出信号上升,直到输出信号下降为止的下降时间为止。

    ELECTRONIC APPARATUS
    4.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220310150A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-29

    申请号:US17701199

    申请日:2022-03-22

    Inventor: Satoshi Morimoto

    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a DRAM; an integrated circuit that includes a memory controller for the DRAM, a power-supply control circuit that controls a power-supply voltage of the DRAM or the integrated circuit, and a setting processing unit. Further, the setting processing unit determines an aperture width of an eye pattern of a signal between the DRAM and the memory controller, determines an aperture-width difference between the determined aperture width and a predetermined lowermost aperture width at one of end sides of the lowermost aperture width and an aperture-width difference between the determined aperture width and the lowermost aperture width at the other of the end sides of the lowermost aperture width, and decreases and determines the voltage value in accordance with the smaller one among the aperture-width differences.

    Document reading apparatus that reads document images of documents by image sensors

    公开(公告)号:US10536605B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-01-14

    申请号:US16104719

    申请日:2018-08-17

    Inventor: Satoshi Morimoto

    Abstract: Provided is an image forming apparatus capable of accurately returning a carriage to a home position without having to turn ON a light source in the process of returning the carriage to the home position. A first reading-position-detection plate is arranged inside of a reading width of a line sensor and outside of a document-image-reading width. A second color region has a length that gradually increases in the main scanning direction as going away from the home position of the carriage. A reading-position-detecting unit detects the length in the main scanning direction of the second color region on the basis of output from the line sensor. A movement-distance-converting unit converts this length to a movement distance to the home position. A movement-control unit causes the carriage to move toward the home position just the movement distance.

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