Image forming apparatus
AssigneeKYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
InventorMasayuki Miyake
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus is an apparatus that forms an image on paper and provided with a sensor section, a determination section, and an estimation section. The sensor section outputs a signal indicating a state of the paper. The determination section determines whether or not each of a plurality of error conditions relating to a paper error is satisfied based on the signal output by the sensor section. The estimation section estimates an occurrence factor of the paper error based on a satisfaction pattern of the plurality of error conditions.
Claims6
An image forming apparatus that forms an image on paper, the apparatus comprising:
- a sensor section configured to output a signal indicating a state of the paper;
- storage that stores therein paper error information indicating a causal relationship between a plurality of error occurrence factors and a plurality of error conditions relating to respective paper errors;
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- a controller configured to determine whether or not each of the plurality of error conditions is satisfied based on the signal output by the sensor section and
- decide at least one error occurrence factor of the error occurrence factors based on a satisfaction pattern of the plurality of error conditions by referring to the paper error information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.