摘要:
There is described a paper sheet conveyance apparatus, which makes it possible to surely separate the overlapping paper sheets from each other irrespective of a kind of paper. The apparatus includes: a thickness detecting section to detect a thickness of a paper sheet, currently conveyed in the conveyance path; a first suction device to adsorb the conveyance paper sheet currently passing through the first suction device; a second suction device to adsorb the overlap paper sheet currently passing through the second suction device; an overlapping conveyance path that is branched from the conveyance path; and a control section that activates the first suction device and the second suction device so as to separate the conveyance paper sheet from the overlap paper sheet, and to introduce the conveyance paper sheet and the overlap paper sheet into the conveyance path and the overlapping conveyance path, respectively.
摘要:
There is described a paper sheet conveyance apparatus, which makes it possible to surely separate the overlapping paper sheets from each other irrespective of a kind of paper. The apparatus includes: a thickness detecting section to detect a thickness of a paper sheet, currently conveyed in the conveyance path; a first suction device to adsorb the conveyance paper sheet currently passing through the first suction device; a second suction device to adsorb the overlap paper sheet currently passing through the second suction device; an overlapping conveyance path that is branched from the conveyance path; and a control section that activates the first suction device and the second suction device so as to separate the conveyance paper sheet from the overlap paper sheet, and to introduce the conveyance paper sheet and the overlap paper sheet into the conveyance path and the overlapping conveyance path, respectively.
摘要:
There is described an image forming apparatus, in which the influence of the overall controlling section startup time is reduced, thereby cutting down the time from turning on of power to enabling of image formation. The image forming apparatus includes: a main power switch to turn ON/OFF an AC power source to be supplied into the image forming apparatus; a DC power current generating section to convert AC power current, fed from the AC power source, to DC power current; an overall-controlling section to control overall operations of the image forming apparatus; an engine-controlling section to conduct a predetermined controlling operation among from controlling operations to be conducted in the image forming apparatus; a first power-controlling section, included in the overall-controlling section and/or controlled by the overall-controlling section; and a second power-controlling section, having a starting time shorter than that of the first power-controlling section.
摘要:
In order to shorten a time for preliminary original reading which is performed prior to reading of an original image, an image reading apparatus of the present invention scans an original mounted on a platen glass by a scan optical system that moves to the original and reads a scanned image of the original by using a CCD sensor, the apparatus having a function to perform a preliminary original read operation for automatically deciding a density of the original before the reading operation of the original image, wherein the preliminary original reading is performed while the scan optical system in an idling state is moving from a read standby position to an image read operation start position; a white background level correction operation of the CDD sensor is performed after collection of original density data by the preliminary original read operation; and a result of the correction is reflected on the original density data obtained by the preliminary original reading to control the decision of the original density.
摘要:
There is described an image-forming apparatus, which make it possible to prevent the occurrence of the image unevenness without complicating the configuration of the image-forming apparatus and without increasing the cost of the image-forming apparatus. The image-forming apparatus includes an image-bearing member; an image writing device, having a LED array head in which a plurality of LED elements are arranged in a line, to form a electrostatic latent image on the image-bearing member; a calculating section to calculate compensation values utilized for correcting light intensities of the LED elements included in the LED array head, based on distance information between the image-bearing member and the LED array head; a correction controlling section to correct the light intensities of the LED elements included in the LED array head, based on the compensation values; and a storage device to store the distance information between the image-bearing member and the LED array head.
摘要:
This invention provides an image forming apparatus that can suppress variations in writing densities of LED heads and form stable images. An image forming apparatus has an image retainer 1 for retaining a toner image, an image writing unit 3 equipped with a plurality of LED heads 31 to form a static latent image the image retainer 1, a developing unit 4 for developing the static latent image formed by the image writing unit 3 with a developing agent, a patch formation controller 23 for forming patches for each LED head on the image retainer 1, a density detector 25 for detecting the density of each patch formed by the patch formation controller 23, and a correction controller 26 for correcting the light amount of each LED head by the density detected by the density detector 25.
摘要:
This invention provides an image forming apparatus that can suppress variations in writing densities of LED heads and form stable images.An image forming apparatus has an image retainer 1 for retaining a toner image, an image writing unit 3 equipped with a plurality of LED heads 31 to form a static latent image the image retainer 1, a developing unit 4 for developing the static latent image formed by the image writing unit 3 with a developing agent, a patch formation controller 23 for forming patches for each LED head on the image retainer 1, a density detector 25 for detecting the density of each patch formed by the patch formation controller 23, and a correction controller 26 for correcting the light amount of each LED head by the density detected by the density detector 25.
摘要:
There is described an image forming apparatus, in which the influence of the overall controlling section startup time is reduced, thereby cutting down the time from turning on of power to enabling of image formation. The image forming apparatus includes: a main power switch to turn ON/OFF an AC power source to be supplied into the image forming apparatus; a DC power current generating section to convert AC power current, fed from the AC power source, to DC power current; an overall-controlling section to control overall operations of the image forming apparatus; an engine-controlling section to conduct a predetermined controlling operation among from controlling operations to be conducted in the image forming apparatus; a first power-controlling section, included in the overall-controlling section and/or controlled by the overall-controlling section; and a second power-controlling section, having a starting time shorter than that of the first power-controlling section.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus includes: an image reading section for obtaining image data by reading an image from a document; an image forming section for forming the image on a sheet based on the image data; a reception section for accepting a user operation regarding use of the image forming apparatus; and a whole control section for controlling an operation of the image reading section and an operation of the image forming section, wherein the image forming apparatus has a normal mode under which an operation of the image forming apparatus is provided, and a power saving mode under which electric power consumption of the image forming apparatus is reduced, and the whole control section is in a non-operating state under the power saving mode, and the whole control section is set to be in an operating state when the reception section accepts the user operation.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus for forming an image on a transfer sheet based on image data, comprises an operating section to determine a setup about a margin region on which an image is not formed at an edge portion of the transfer sheet, a control section to determine an inner region having a specified width and being adjacent to the determined margin region as a density change region in which an image density is changed, and determines a more inner region located inward more from the density change region as a regular density region in which an image is formed with a regular image density, and an image forming section to form an image in the density change region based on image data on the condition where the image density is reduced and to form an image in the regular density region based on image data without changing the image density.