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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 08, 2010
Nobuyuki Satoh, Kanagawa, JP;
Masato Kobayashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Yuichi Sakurada, Kanagawa, JP;
Arata Suzuki, Kanagawa, JP;
Tatsuhiko Okada, Saitama, JP;
Daisaku Horikawa, Saitama, JP;
Nobuyuki Satoh, Kanagawa, JP;
Masato Kobayashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Yuichi Sakurada, Kanagawa, JP;
Arata Suzuki, Kanagawa, JP;
Tatsuhiko Okada, Saitama, JP;
Daisaku Horikawa, Saitama, JP;
Ricoh Company, Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A conveying apparatus that rotates a roller and conveys an object, the conveying apparatus including: a roller driving unit that rotates the roller; a first operation unit that operates a rotation amount of the roller corresponding to a target movement amount of the object, on the basis of the target movement amount and information of a roller diameter, and quantizes the rotation amount; a random number generating unit that generates a random number; a second operation unit that operates a corrected rotation amount of the roller obtained by correcting the rotation amount, on the basis of the random number generated by the random number generating unit, a quantization error obtained by the first operation unit and a quantization method; and a driving control unit that controls driving of the roller according to the corrected rotation amount.