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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 03, 2017
Yasunobu Shirata, Tokyo, JP;
Yasunobu Shirata, Tokyo, JP;
RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A malfunction diagnosing apparatus includes circuitry that collects vibration data generated when a diagnosed apparatus operates in a predetermined operating sequence, analyzes the collected vibration data and calculate a feature quantity, determines, based on the calculated feature quantity, whether or not something is wrong with the diagnosed apparatus, controls, if it is determined that something wrong with the diagnosed apparatus, the diagnosed apparatus to repeat the operating sequence that it is determined that something is wrong with the diagnosed apparatus for a predetermined number of times, and determines that malfunction occurs in the diagnosed apparatus if it is determined that something is wrong with the diagnosed apparatus in the operating sequence repeated for the predetermined number of times.