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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 1992
Filed:
Sep. 26, 1990
Tetsuo Tomiyama, Chiba, JP;
Hiroyuki Yoshikawa, Tokyo, JP;
Yasushi Umeda, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshiki Shimomura, Kyoto, JP;
Yoshifumi Ishii, Osaka, JP;
Hiroshi Kusumoto, Wakayama, JP;
Mita Industrial Co., Ltd., , JP;
Abstract
A system according to the invention has a plurality of sensors, a system control circuit and a plurality of actuators. State data, supplied from the sensors, is compared with characteristic data in the system control circuit. From this comparison, it is judged whether a fault has occurred depending upon whether the state data is relatively lower or higher. If a fault has occurred, fault inference fault is made on the basis of a comparison between qualitative data and fault diagnosis knowledge which are stored in the system control circuit. Then a judgement is made as to which of the elements in an image forming apparatus is abnormal. An actuator operating signal thereafter is generated as a result of this judgement.