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US 12,038,709 B2Granted
Image formation system, sheet conveyance system, and image formation device
AssigneeKonica Minolta, Inc.
InventorKatsutoshi Iwai
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Abstract
An image formation system includes: an image former that forms an image on a continuous sheet; a slack generator that is arranged upstream of the image former in a sheet conveyance direction and generates slack on the continuous sheet; and a sheet characteristic detector that is arranged upstream of the slack generator in the sheet conveyance direction and detects a sheet characteristic of the continuous sheet.
Claims16
An image formation system comprising:
- an image former that forms an image on a continuous sheet;
- a slack generator that is arranged upstream of the image former in a sheet conveyance direction and generates slack on the continuous sheet;
- a sheet characteristic detector that is arranged upstream of the slack generator in the sheet conveyance direction and detects a sheet characteristic of the continuous sheet;
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- a hardware processor that allows the slack generator to generate the slack on the continuous sheet, and controls the sheet characteristic detector to detect the sheet characteristic of the continuous sheet while a slack portion generated on the continuous sheet is conveyed toward the image former, wherein
- the hardware processor controls the slack generator to generate a predetermined amount of slack before the sheet characteristic detector detects the sheet characteristic.
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A sheet conveyance system comprising:
- a sheet supplier that supplies a continuous sheet to an image former that forms an image on a continuous sheet;
- a slack generator that is arranged upstream of the image former in a sheet conveyance direction on a sheet conveyance route on which the continuous sheet supplied from the sheet supplier is conveyed and generates slack on the continuous sheet;
- a sheet characteristic detector that is arranged upstream of the slack generator in the sheet conveyance direction on the sheet conveyance route and detects a sheet characteristic of the continuous sheet;
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- a hardware processor that allows the slack generator to generate the slack on the continuous sheet, and controls the sheet characteristic detector to detect the sheet characteristic of the continuous sheet while a slack portion generated on the continuous sheet is conveyed toward the image former, wherein
- the hardware processor controls the slack generator to generate a predetermined amount of slack before the sheet characteristic detector detects the sheet characteristic.
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An image formation device comprising:
- an image former that forms an image on a continuous sheet;
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- a hardware processor that controls a slack generator that is arranged upstream of the image former in a sheet conveyance direction and generates slack on the continuous sheet, and a sheet characteristic detector that is arranged upstream of the slack generator in the sheet conveyance direction and detects a sheet characteristic of the continuous sheet, wherein
- the hardware processor allows the slack generator to generate the slack on the continuous sheet, and controls the sheet characteristic detector to detect the sheet characteristic of the continuous sheet while a slack portion generated on the continuous sheet is conveyed toward the image former, and
- the hardware processor controls the slack generator to generate a predetermined amount of slack before the sheet characteristic detector detects the sheet characteristic.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.