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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 1998
Filed:
Jan. 03, 1996
Minori Ichimura, Sagamihara, JP;
Shoji Okabe, Atsugi, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An energy-saving unit causes a facsimile apparatus to enter an energy-saving mode in which power consumption is reduced in the facsimile apparatus, and further determines to cause the facsimile apparatus to exit the energy-saving mode when a predetermined cause has been detected. A main control unit controls the entirety of the facsimile apparatus and supplies an energy-saving control signal to the energy-saving unit, the energy-saving control signal indicating instructions that the energy-saving unit is to perform. The energy-saving unit supplies an energy-saving canceling cause signal to the main control unit, the energy-saving canceling cause signal indicating the predetermined cause due to which the energy-saving unit has determined to cause the facsimile apparatus to exit the energy-saving mode.