Device for identifying types of sheet materials
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsNorio Kaneko, Takehiko Kawasaki, Naoaki Maruyama
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Abstract
A device for identifying types of sheet materials has a detecting unit for detecting information regarding moisture of a sheet material; external force applicator for applying an external force to the sheet material; information obtaining unit for obtaining information according to a force that is attenuated by the presence of the sheet material when the external force is applied to the sheet material by the external force applicator; and a judging unit for identifying the type of the sheet material based on the information obtained from the detecting unit and the information obtained from the information obtaining unit.
Claims11
A device for identifying types of sheet materials, comprising:
- a detecting unit for detecting information regarding moisture of a sheet material;
- an external force applying unit for applying an external force to the sheet material;
- an information obtaining unit for obtaining information according to a force that is attenuated by the presence of the sheet material when the external force is applied to the sheet material by the external force applying unit, said detecting unit formed integrally with said information obtaining unit;
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- a judging unit for identifying the type of the sheet material based on the information obtained from the detecting unit and the information obtained from the information obtaining unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.