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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2024

Filed:

Sep. 07, 2022
Applicant:

Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Eiji Shinohara, Mishima Shizuoka, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/00 (2006.01); G06K 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/55 (2013.01); G06K 15/408 (2013.01);
Abstract

According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a driving unit, a first determination unit, a second determination unit, and an output unit. The first determination unit is configured to determine whether or not a rotation abnormality relating to rotation of the driving unit occurs. The second determination unit is configured to determine whether or not a signal abnormality relating to a signal line of a current signal of the driving unit occurs based on a current value of the current signal after the first determination unit determines whether or not the rotation abnormality occurs. The output unit is configured to output a determination result of the second determination unit.


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