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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2022
Filed:
May. 28, 2020
Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Takeshi Watanabe, Osaka, JP;
Hiroatsu Tamai, Osaka, JP;
Kenichi Satake, Osaka, JP;
Hiroki Sakane, Osaka, JP;
Masato Usui, Osaka, JP;
Yuzuru Yuasa, Osaka, JP;
Yusuke Tamekuni, Osaka, JP;
Yasuhiro Michishita, Osaka, JP;
Shinobu Ohata, Osaka, JP;
Naoto Miyakoshi, Osaka, JP;
Shunsuke Yamasaki, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A cleaning device includes a separation and contact mechanism and a controller. The controller includes a separation and contact control unit, a conveyance roller rotation control unit, and a take-up control unit. The separation and contact control unit controls the separation and contact mechanism so as to allow the web to be pressed to the conveyance roller when the conveyance roller is in a non-conveyable state. The conveyance roller rotation control unit rotates the conveyance roller at a cleaning rotational speed lower than a conveyance-time rotational speed of the conveyance roller in a conveyance state. The take-up control unit allows the take-up roller to perform a take-up operation of taking up the web corresponding to a rotation of a take-up roller plural times at a predetermined time interval within a cleaning time in a state where the conveyance roller is being rotated at the cleaning rotational speed.