IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD

• US 20110182644A1
• Filed: 01/27/2011
• Published: 07/28/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/28/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation), Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation), Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Tsuduki, Seiji, Kashiwagi, Ryota
• Application Number:
  US13/015,067
• Publication Number:
  US 20110182644A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 400/583
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 11/006 Means for preventing paper jams or for facilitating their removal
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 11/0095 Detecting means for copy material, e.g. for detecting or sensing presence of copy material or its leading or trailing end
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/55 Self-diagnostics; Malfunction or lifetime display
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/70 Detecting malfunctions relating to paper handling, e.g. jams
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 2221/1675 jam treatment

Abstract

An image forming apparatus includes plural detection parts, a storage part and a display part. The detection parts are respectively installed at specific positions in the image forming apparatus, and respectively detect whether sheet clogging occurs. The storage part stores data of a transmitted image of the image forming apparatus. The display part acquires the data of the transmitted image of the image forming apparatus from the storage part, and displays the data of the transmitted image, and further displays position information indicating installation places of the respective detection parts on the transmitted image, and emphasizes and displays position information corresponding to the detection part which now detects the sheet clogging.

Claims

1. An image forming apparatus for forming an image on a sheet, comprising:

a plurality of detection parts that are respectively installed at specific positions in the image forming apparatus and respectively detect whether sheet clogging occurs;

a storage part to store data of a transmitted image of the image forming apparatus; and

a display part that acquires the data of the transmitted image of the image forming apparatus from the storage part, displays the data of the transmitted image, displays position information indicating installation places of the respective detection parts on the transmitted image, and emphasizes and displays position information corresponding to the detection part which now detects the sheet clogging.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein

the storage part further stores detailed image data indicating a periphery of a place where each of the detection parts is installed,

when one of the position information displayed on the transmitted image is selected, the display part acquires the detailed image data corresponding to the detection part corresponding to the position information from the storage part, displays the detailed image data, and displays the position information on the detailed image.

3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein

when the position information displayed on the detailed image is selected, the display part displays a procedure of removing the sheet clogging in the detection part corresponding to the position information.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein

the detection parts are given priority, and

the display part varies display of the position information according to the priority.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

an authentication part to determine whether a specified password is inputted; and

a mode switching part to switch a normal mode to a maintenance mode when the authentication part determines that the specified password is inputted, wherein

in the maintenance mode, the display part displays the transmitted image data and the position information of the respective detection parts.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein

the display part further displays a list of identification information of the detection parts.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein

in the list of the identification information, the display part displays the identification information corresponding to the detection part detecting the sheet clogging, which is differentiated from other identification information.

8. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein

the storage part further stores detailed image data indicating a periphery of a place where each of the detection parts is installed,

when identification information is selected from the list of the identification information, the display part acquires and displays the detailed image data indicating the periphery where the detection part corresponding to the identification information is arranged from the storage part, and displays the position information of the detection part on the detailed image.

9. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein

the detailed image data is a transmission view of the image forming apparatus.

10. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein

the display part includes a touch panel display, and displays the transmitted image data and the position information on the touch panel display.

11. An image forming apparatus for forming an image on a sheet, comprising:

a storage part to store an error code as a code of a defect occurring in the image forming apparatus, an adjustment item relating to a place where the defect occurs, and a set value of the adjustment item, which are correlated with one another; and

a display part that displays a list of error codes of defects occurring now or already occurring in the image forming apparatus, acquires adjustment items and set values, which correspond to an error code selected from the list, from the storage part, displays them as an adjustment item list, and displays, when an adjustment item is selected from the adjustment item list, an image to change the set value of the selected adjustment item.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein

the display part displays the error codes of the defects occurring now or most recently in a specified column, and when the specified column is selected, the display part displays the list of the error codes.

13. A display control method of an image forming apparatus, comprising:

detecting, by a plurality of detection parts respectively installed at specific positions in the image forming apparatus, whether sheet clogging occurs;

acquiring, by a controller in the image forming apparatus, data of a transmitted image of the image forming apparatus from a storage part, controlling to display the data of the transmitted image, displaying position information indicating installation places of the respective detection parts on the transmitted image, and emphasizing and displaying position information corresponding to the detection part which now detects the sheet clogging.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein

when one of the position information displayed on the transmitted image is selected, the controller acquires detailed image data indicating a periphery of an installation place of the detection part corresponding to the position information from the storage part, controls to display the detailed image data, and controls to display the position information on the detailed image.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein

when position information displayed on the detailed image is selected, the controller controls to display a procedure of removing the sheet clogging in the detection part corresponding to the position information.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein

the detection parts are given priority, and

the controller controls to vary display of the position information according to the priority.

17. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

by the controller,

determining whether a specified password is inputted;

switching a normal mode to a maintenance mode when it is determined that the specified password is inputted; and

controlling to display the transmitted image data and the position information of the respective detection parts in the maintenance mode.

18. The method of claim 13, wherein

the controller further controls to display a list of identification information of the detection parts.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein

in the list of the identification information, the controller controls to differentiate display of the identification information corresponding to the detection part detecting the sheet clogging from display of other identification information.

20. The method of claim 18, wherein

when identification information is selected from the list of the identification information, the controller acquires detailed image data indicating a periphery where the detection part corresponding to the identification information is arranged from the storage part, controls to display the detailed image data, and controls to display the position information of the detection part on the detailed image.