Fuser failure prediction
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorDarin Lindig
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Abstract
An example apparatus includes a fuser slip detection portion to detect slip of a fuser, a temperature measurement portion to measure a temperature of the fuser, and a processor. The processor is to receive indication of a partial failure condition from the fuser slip detection portion determine a predicted complete failure condition when the indication of the partial failure condition corresponds to a temperature of the fuser that is below a temperature threshold, and generate an alert indicative of the predicted complete failure condition.
Claims15
A device, comprising:
- a fuser slip detection portion to detect slip of a fuser;
- a temperature measurement portion to measure a temperature of the fuser;
- and
- a processor to:
- receive indication of a partial failure condition from the fuser slip detection portion;
- determine a predicted complete failure condition when the indication of the partial failure condition corresponds to a temperature of the fuser that is below a temperature threshold;
- and
- generate an alert indicative of the predicted complete failure condition.
A method, comprising:
- detecting a slip of a fuser greater than a slip threshold;
- measuring a temperature of the fuser;
- and
- generating an alert indicative of a predicted complete failure condition when the temperature of the fuser is below a temperature threshold.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium encoded with instructions executable by a processor of a computing system, the computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions to:
- receive a fuser slip indication;
- determine a predicted complete failure condition when the fuser slip indication corresponds to a fuser temperature that is below a temperature threshold;
- and
- generate an alert indicative of the predicted complete failure condition.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.