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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 1988
Filed:
Dec. 24, 1986
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An electrophotographic copying machine has a flash lamp for applying a flash of light to a document to be copied. The copying machine also includes a sensor for detecting whether the flash lamp is energized or not. When there is no signal indicating that the flash lamp is energized even in the presence of a command to energize the flash lamp, a control circuit determines that the flash lamp has failed to emit light at a predetermined exposure timing, and produces an output signal to effect a predetermined operation upon non-energization of the flash lamp. An arrangement for effecting such a predetermined operation may for example be a switch of an erase lamp, a control circuit for controlling operation of a copy counter, a switch of a motor for driving image developing rollers, a control circuit for controlling a developing bias, a switch of an image transfer charger, a control circuit for controlling a separator finger for changing feed paths of travel of an image transfer sheet, a control circuit for controlling a shutter to cover an image transfer charger, or a switch for driving rollers which feed an image transfer sheet.