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Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2022

Filed:

Oct. 11, 2018
Applicant:

Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Spring, TX (US);

Inventor:

Yuichiro Tomishima, Yokohama, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/57 (2006.01); G01B 11/06 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/57 (2013.01); G01B 11/0625 (2013.01); G03G 15/5029 (2013.01); G03G 2215/00616 (2013.01); G03G 2215/00742 (2013.01);
Abstract

An image forming apparatus and method are disclosed. A detection light is radiated to a medium. An amount of transmitted light, an amount of regular reflected light, and an amount of diffuse reflected light are detected. A reflected-light-amount-equivalent value is obtained when the amount of regular reflected light is standardized based on the amount of diffuse reflected light. A glossy sheet-thickness coefficient is calculated by adding the reflected-light-amount-equivalent value to a transmitted-light-amount-equivalent value that is based on the amount of transmitted light. The weight property of the medium is determined, based on the glossy sheet-thickness coefficient, wherein the weight property comprises a basis weight or a thickness of the medium.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Tomishima, Yuichiro. (2022). Image forming apparatus for weight property determination (U.S. Patent No. 11268904). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/11268904

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