Mita Industrial Co., Ltd.

Toshimitsu Takakura

Tetsuo Tomiyama

Yoshiki Shimomura

Yasushi Umeda

Sadao Tanigawa

Hiroyuki Yoshikawa

Kazuhiro Ogawa

Yukihiro Mori

Kenji Katsuhara

Tomohiko Sakao

Hirofumi Nishino

Shintaro Otani

A document original simulator including first tone simulation portion having substantially the same reflectance as a white original sheet and a second tone simulation portion having a lower reflectance than the first tone simulation portion. When an image fogging detecting operation is to be performed with the use of the document original simulator, it is checked whether or not the amount of light reflected from the first tone simulation portion when the first tone simulation portion is illuminated with light is smaller than the amount of light reflected from the white original sheet placed on a document original presenting section when the white original sheet is illuminated with light. If the amount of the light reflected from the first tone simulation portion of the document original simulator is smaller than the amount of the light reflected from the white original sheet, the image fogging detecting operation is performed with the use of the first tone simulation portion of the document original simulator. If not, the image fogging detecting operation is performed with the use of the second tone simulation portion of the document original simulator.

Document original simulator for image fogging detection, and image

A simulation system is provided which is capable of simulating the behavior of a sheet transported by a transportation system. In response to application of a control sequence formulated for the sheet transportation system, a simulation is performed to check how the sheet is to be transported in the sheet transportation system on the basis of the applied control sequence. Necessary data are extracted from hardware systems constituting the real sheet transportation system. On the basis of the extracted data, a virtual sheet transportation system is constructed in a computer, and the sheet is represented by information indicative of the locations of opposite ends of the sheet and the distance therebetween. The sheet thus represented is moved by a predetermined unit distance in the virtual sheet transportation system on the basis of the control sequence, and data is computed for every movement of the sheet.

Simulation system for control sequence for sheet transportation

The present invention makes it possible to make good self-repair on which little secondary effect is exerted by calculating a manipulated variable of a parameter at the time of the repair by a functional amount in an image forming apparatus having a self-repair function. When a fault occurs, control-type repair for operating a physical parameter is first made. In this repair, the physical parameter to be operated is searched for (n3). If the physical parameter to be operated is determined, a manipulated variable of the physical parameter is then calculated by a functional amount (n4). The manipulated variable of the parameter by the functional amount is determined by adjusting the degree to which a plurality of functions are developed. Therefore, a manipulated variable in which the development of the functions is most preferable as the entire apparatus is determined. If the fault cannot be repaired by the control type repair, functional redundancy type repair is made (n6, n7, n8, n9). In the functional redundancy type repair, priorities to repair candidates are determined by the functional amount.

Self-reparir type image forming apparatus utilizing functional

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Toshimitsu Takakura