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US 9,637,337 B2Granted
Sheet feeding apparatus and image processing apparatus
AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorNoriyuki Takuwa
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Abstract
A sheet feeding apparatus includes a sheet conveying unit configured to convey a sheet along a conveyance path, a detecting unit configured to detect the sheet passing along the conveyance path, a control unit configured to determine an amount of delay of a sheet conveyed along the conveyance path based on the detection and determine information to be output based on the amount of the delay, and an output unit configured to output the information.
Claims15
A sheet feeding apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of sheet conveying rollers disposed along a conveyance path, the sheet conveying rollers including a first roller and a second roller that are consecutively arranged in this order in a sheet conveying direction;
- a first sheet sensor disposed between the first roller and the second roller along the conveyance path;
- a second sheet sensor disposed between the first sheet sensor and the second roller along the conveyance path;
- a display;
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- a controller configured to calculate a speed of each of sheets conveyed along the conveyance path based on a time difference between detection of the sheet by the first sheet sensor and detection of the sheet by the second sheet sensor, determine an amount of delay of the sheets based on the calculated speeds, and control the display to display first maintenance information for the first roller upon determining that the amount of delay is within a first range, and second maintenance information for the first roller upon determining that the amount of delay is within a second range.
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An image processing apparatus comprising:
- an image scanner;
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- a plurality of sheet conveying rollers disposed along a conveyance path to the image scanner, the sheet conveying rollers including a first roller and a second roller that are consecutively arranged in this order in a sheet conveying direction;
- a first sheet sensor disposed between the first roller and the second roller along the conveyance path;
- a second sheet sensor disposed between the first sheet sensor and the second roller along the conveyance path;
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- a controller configured to calculate a speed of each of sheets conveyed along the conveyance path based on a time difference between detection of the sheet by the first sheet sensor and detection of the sheet by the second sheet sensor, determine an amount of delay the sheets based on the calculated speeds, and control the display to display first maintenance information for the first roller upon determining that the amount of delay is within a first range, and second maintenance information for the first roller upon determining that the amount of delay is within a second range.
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A method for operating a sheet feeding apparatus comprising:
- conveying each of a plurality of sheets by a first roller and a second roller that are consecutively arranged in this order in a sheet conveying direction along a conveyance path;
- detecting each of the sheets passing along the conveyance path by a first sheet sensor disposed between the first roller and the second roller along the conveyance path;
- detecting said each of the sheets passing along the conveyance path by a second sheet sensor disposed between the first sheet sensor and the second roller along the conveyance path;
- determining a speed of each sheet passing along the conveyance path based on a time difference between detection of the sheet by the first sheet sensor and detection of the sheet by the second sheet sensor;
- determining an amount of delay of the sheets based on the determined speeds;
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- displaying first maintenance information for the first roller upon determining that the amount of delay is within a first range, and second maintenance information for the first roller upon determining that the amount of delay is within a second range.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.