公开(公告)号：US20030052934A1

公开(公告)日：2003-03-20

申请号：US10238717

申请日：2002-09-11

Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA

Inventor： Shoiji Maruyama

IPC: B41J002/01

CPC classification number: G03G15/5029 ,  B65H2701/1712 ,  G03G2215/00751

Abstract: The invention is to prevent problems due to the feeding of an OHT sheet for ink jet, such as damaging of the fixing device or deterioration of the image, as well as damaging of the fixing device due to the feeding of a sheet with a thickness exceeding a regular thickness, and to give related information to the user, so as to provide an image forming apparatus which reliability and usability of the image forming apparatus can be enhanced. The image forming apparatus comprises feeding means for feeding a recording material, image forming means for forming an image on the recording material fed by the feeding means, reading means capable of reading an image of an area including a portion of a surface of the recording material fed by the feeding means, determining means for determining whether or not the recording material is an irregular recording material, based on the image read by the reading means, and controlling means for stopping or suppressing, when it is determined by the determining means that the recording material is an irregular recording material, a specific operation of the apparatus.

Abstract translation: 本发明是为了防止由于供给用于喷墨的OHT片材而引起的问题，例如定影装置的损坏或图像的劣化，以及由于馈送厚度超过的片材导致的定影装置的损坏 规则的厚度，并且向用户提供相关信息，以便提供可以提高图像形成装置的可靠性和可用性的图像形成装置。 图像形成装置包括：馈送装置，用于馈送记录材料;图像形成装置，用于在由馈送装置馈送的记录材料上形成图像;读取装置，其能够读取包括记录材料表面的一部分的区域的图像 由所述馈送装置馈送的确定装置，用于基于由所述读取装置读取的图像来确定所述记录材料是否是不规则记录材料的确定装置，以及当由所述确定装置确定所述记录材料确定 记录材料是不规则的记录材料，该装置的具体操作。