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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 23, 2015
Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Masaki Kikuchi, Osaka, JP;
Masaru Sato, Osaka, JP;
Masayoshi Hayama, Osaka, JP;
Kazunori Goto, Osaka, JP;
Toshiya Miyai, Osaka, JP;
KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a detection portion that detects an earthquake, a plurality of job execution portions that each execute a job, an output portion that outputs information, and a control portion that, upon the detection portion detecting the occurrence of an earthquake, switches a mode of the image forming apparatus to an emergency mode, after a lapse of a prescribed wait time since the switching to the emergency mode, executes a self-diagnosis process for checking whether or not the job execution portions operate properly, and based on a result thereof, makes an output portion output information indicating an executable job and a non-executable job.