Abstract:
A sheet measuring apparatus includes a first rotating member that includes a first peripheral surface portion that contacts a transported sheet; a second rotating member that includes a second peripheral surface portion made of a material different from that of the first peripheral surface portion, the second peripheral surface contacting the first peripheral surface portion and not contacting the sheet; a first rotation amount detecting unit that detects a first rotation amount that is a rotation amount of the first rotating member; a second rotation amount detecting unit that detects a second rotation amount that is a rotation amount of the second rotating member, the second rotation amount being used for a calculation related to the transported sheet; and a fault detecting unit that detects a fault that has occurred in the first rotating member on the basis of the first rotation amount and the second rotation amount.
Abstract:
A sheet measuring apparatus includes a first rotating member including a first peripheral surface portion that contacts a transported sheet; a second rotating member including a second peripheral surface portion that contacts the first peripheral surface portion; a first rotation amount detecting unit that detects a first rotation amount of the first rotating member; a second rotation amount detecting unit that detects a second rotation amount of the second rotating member; a sheet calculation unit that obtains a first rotating member correction value for correcting an error that is superposed on the second rotation amount due to a radius distribution of the first rotating member and that performs calculation related to the transported sheet; a radius distribution calculating unit that calculates a new radius distribution of the first rotating member; and an updating unit that updates the first rotating member correction value to a new first rotating member correction value.
Abstract:
An apparatus for measuring a length of a recording material, includes: a rotating member that rotates while contacting a conveyed recording material; a detecting section that detects a rotation amount of the rotating member; an information obtaining section that obtains at least one of information of an image formed on the recording material and information of the recording material; and a calculating section that calculates a length of the recording material in a direction of the conveyance, based on an output from the detecting section and the information obtained by the information obtaining section.
Abstract:
A sheet feed device includes an air flow generating part that generates an air flow for floating a sheet; a feed member that feeds a sheet by rotating, while applying a load to the top one of sheets stacked; and a transport condition sensing unit that is positioned not to obstruct an air flow generated by the air flow generating part and senses a transport condition of a sheet fed by the feed member.
Abstract:
An information processor includes a storage unit storing a first coefficient in correspondence with a characteristic of a sheet of paper, a first acquisition unit acquiring a first signal based on the water content of a first sheet of paper not having an image formed thereon, a second acquisition unit acquiring a second signal based on the water content of the first sheet of paper having an image formed thereon and being heated for fixing, a determination unit determining the characteristic of the first sheet of paper, a first calculation unit calculating a variation in water content of the first sheet of paper using the difference between the first signal and the second signal and the first coefficient stored in correspondence with the determined characteristic, and a second calculation unit calculating an expansion and contraction ratio of the first sheet of paper using the variation in water content.
Abstract:
A sheet length measurement apparatus including: a rotating member that comes in contact with a recording sheet conveyed on a conveying path, and rotates along with the conveyance of the recording sheet; a rotation amount detector that detects a rotational amount of the rotating member; a fixing support member that fixedly supports an rotating shaft of the rotating member at a fixed position; an opposed member that is disposed opposite to the rotating member so as to hold the recording sheet between the rotating member and the opposed member, the opposed member being disposed so that the rotating member rotates along with the conveyance of the recording sheet; and a support member that supports the opposed member in a movable state in a direction to separate from or come in contact with a surface of the recording sheet.
Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit forming an image on a recording sheet; a transport unit transporting the recording sheet; a support surface supporting the recording sheet; a rotating member having an outer peripheral surface pressed against the support surface and rotationally following the recording sheet when the recording sheet passes through between the support surface and the outer peripheral surface; an ascertaining unit ascertaining a length of the recording sheet on the basis of an amount of rotation of the rotating member; and a restricting unit restricting a movement of the rotating member that moves toward the support surface after the recording sheet passes through between the support surface and the outer peripheral surface, the restricting unit preventing the outer peripheral surface, which comes into contact with the recording sheet, and the support surface from coming into contact with each other.
Abstract:
A length measurement apparatus including: a measurement portion that measures a sheet length based on a rotational amount of a length measurement roll for a first detection period in which first and third sensors detect the sheet, and a sheet length based on a rotational amount of the length measurement roll for a second detection period in which the second sensor and any one of the first and third sensors detect the sheet, the any one of the first and third sensors being disposed at a position opposite to the second sensor via the length measurement roll; and a whole length calculation portion that selects the sheet length nearer to integral multiples of the circumference length of the length measurement roll from the sheet lengths measured for the first and second detection periods, and calculates the whole length of the sheet by using the selected sheet length.
Abstract:
A measuring device, wherein a feed-out member feeds out an uppermost one of plural sheet-shaped materials stacked on a base by rotating in contact with the uppermost sheet-shaped material, has a detector that detects a force imparted to the base and the sheet-shaped materials not in contact with the feed-out member, the force being generated by feeding-out the uppermost sheet-shaped material.
Abstract:
A sheet length measuring apparatus that includes: a rotating body that rotates in contact with a sheet delivered through a delivery path; detecting units that are located upstream and downstream of the rotating body respectively, and detect a position of the sheet delivered through the delivery path; a delivery unit that is located in at least one of positions between the detecting unit located upstream and the rotating body, and between the detecting unit located downstream and the rotating body, and delivers the sheet on the delivery path; and a rotation amount detecting unit that detects a rotation amount of the rotating body with using a period when the sheet is detected by the detecting units respectively located upstream and downstream of the rotating body as a measurement period.