Untaken sheet notification device, document feeder, and image forming apparatus
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHideyuki Hiro
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Abstract
An untaken sheet notification device to notify that the sheet is untaken from an ejection tray if an ejection tray sensor that detects presence or absence of the sheet on the ejection tray detects presence of the sheet, after a sheet is ejected, a document feeder, and an image forming apparatus include a counter that counts the number of the ejected sheets and a notification controller that performs a specific notification control to notify that the sheet is untaken if the number of the sheets counted by the counter is equal to or less than a predetermined reference number.
Claims12
An untaken sheet notification device to notify that a sheet is untaken from an ejection tray if an ejection tray sensor that detects presence or absence of the sheet on the ejection tray detects presence of the sheet, after the sheet is ejected, the untaken sheet notification device comprising:
- a counter that counts a number of sheets to be ejected from a start to an end of a job;
- and
- a notification controller that performs a specific notification control to notify that the sheet is untaken if the number of the sheets counted by the counter is equal to or less than a predetermined reference number and furthermore if a predetermined waiting time has elapsed from the ejection of a last one of the sheets after the end of the job.
A document feeder comprising:
- an ejection tray;
- and an ejection tray sensor provided on the ejection tray so as to detect presence or absence of a sheet on the ejection tray;
- wherein
- the document feeder further includes an untaken sheet notification device to notify that the sheet is untaken from the ejection tray if the ejection tray sensor detects the presence of the sheet, after the sheet is ejected,
- the sheet includes a document, and
- the untaken sheet notification device includes:
- a counter that counts a number of sheets to be ejected;
- and a notification controller that performs a specific notification control to notify that the sheet is untaken if the number of the sheets counted by the counter is equal to or less than a predetermined reference number.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.