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AssigneeKonica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
InventorsYuta Tachibana, Yuji Kobayashi, Hiroshi Yamaguchi
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An image forming apparatus includes a longitudinally conveying motor, a main-body-side control board, and a sensor. In the longitudinally conveying motor, an encoder generates an encoder signal having a frequency corresponding to the number of rotations of the longitudinally conveying motor, and a sensor signal superimposing unit receives an input of a logical state of the sensor. The sensor signal superimposing unit superimposes the logical state of the sensor on the encoder signal by modulating a duty ratio of the encoder signal based on the logical state of the sensor, and outputs a post-superimposition encoder signal. In the main-body-side control board, a sensor signal separating unit obtains the logical state of the sensor by demodulating the input encoder signal.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
A method for controlling an image forming apparatus including a motor for driving the image forming apparatus, a controller for controlling said motor, and a sensor configured to sense a device state, the image forming apparatus controlling method comprising:
A nontransitory computer-readable recording medium storing a control program for an image forming apparatus, said image forming apparatus including a motor for driving said image forming apparatus, a controller for controlling said motor, and a sensor configured to sense a device state, the program causing a computer to execute processing comprising the steps of:
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