Image forming apparatus with cassette detection and energy saving mode shifting control
AssigneeKyocera Mita Corporation
InventorKoji Kusumoto
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus having a first mode for operation with predetermined power consumption and a second mode for operation with less power consumption than the power consumption in the first mode includes: a paper cassette capable of being attached to a predetermined section of the image forming apparatus, the paper cassette storing paper therein; a detection part detecting the attachment and detachment of the paper cassette to and from the predetermined section; and a shift part, upon the detection by the detection part that the paper cassette has been attached to the predetermined section during the operation in the second mode, shifting the image forming apparatus from the second mode to the first mode.
Claims5
An image forming apparatus
- having a first mode for operation with predetermined power consumption and a second mode for operation with less power consumption than the power consumption in the first mode, the image forming apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of paper cassettes capable of being attached to a predetermined section of the image forming apparatus, each paper cassette storing paper therein;
- a detection part detecting the attachment and detachment of the paper cassettes to and from the predetermined section;
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- a shift part which, when the image forming apparatus is in the second mode, does not shift the image forming apparatus from the second mode to the first mode when the detection part detects that one of the paper cassettes attached to the predetermined section is being detached,
- the shift part maintaining the second mode until detection by the detection part that all the plurality of paper cassettes have been attached to the predetermined section,
- whereby the shift part shifts the image forming apparatus from the second mode to the first mode when the detection part detects that all of the paper cassettes are attached to the predetermined section.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.