Image forming apparatus and vibration isolator selection method
AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTokihiko ISE
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a media sensor which a sheet carrying device has at a halfway part in a sheet carrying path, a damper table which stores a frequency band of vibration to be absorbed for each type of vibration isolator, and a controller which samples an output from the media sensor, performs Fourier transform on a waveform acquired as a result of the sampling, thus calculates a frequency, then searches the damper table on the basis of the resulting frequency, reads an optimum vibration isolator, and outputs the optimum vibration isolator to a control panel.
Claims20
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an electrostatic latent image carrier which carries an electrostatic latent image;
- a developing device which develops the electrostatic latent image to a developer image;
- a sheet carrying device which carries a sheet;
- a sensor which outputs a signal corresponding to a thickness of the sheet in order to detect the thickness of the sheet;
- a transfer device which transfers the developer image to the sheet;
- a fixing device which fixes the developer image to the sheet;
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- a controller which outputs a frequency of the signal.
A vibration isolator selection method for an image forming apparatus with a controller comprising:
- sampling an output from a sensor which outputs a signal corresponding to a thickness of a sheet in order to detect the thickness of the sheet;
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- outputting a frequency of the signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.