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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2022
Filed:
Jul. 05, 2019
Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Spring, TX (US);
Minkeun Song, Suwon-si, KR;
Kiho Park, Suwon-si, KR;
Yong-Ho You, Suwon-si, KR;
Hyoungil Kim, Suwon-si, KR;
HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P., Spring, TX (US);
Abstract
An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a print engine to be used to perform an image forming job, a motor to start the print engine, a driving circuit to supply a power to the motor and to include a sensor to sense a size of current of the power supplied to the motor during an operation to perform the image forming job, and a processor to detect an occurrence of jam based on a size of current sensed by the sensor in a first time interval while the motor is driven and a size of current sensed by the sensor after a determined time from the first time interval.