IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM AND METHOD FOR IMAGE FORMING

• US 20110236035A1
• Filed: 08/23/2010
• Published: 09/29/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/25/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: TOKAIRIN, Motohiro
• Granted Patent: US 8,537,382 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 399/9
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/55 Self-diagnostics; Malfunction or lifetime display
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/80 Details relating to power supplies, circuits boards, electrical connections

Abstract

An image forming apparatus includes: a monitor that monitors a state of communication performed in the image forming apparatus; and a controller that, when the monitor monitors that the state of the communication is abnormal, controls the communication based on an operation of the image forming apparatus in which a state has been changed within previously determined time including a time point at which the state of the communication has become abnormal.

Claims

1. An image forming apparatus comprising:

a monitor that monitors a state of communication performed in the image forming apparatus; and

a controller that, when the monitor monitors that the state of the communication is abnormal, controls the communication based on an operation of the image forming apparatus in which a state has been changed within previously determined time including a time point at which the state of the communication has become abnormal.

2. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a memory that, when the monitor monitors that the state of the communication is abnormal, stores the operation of the image forming apparatus in which the state has been changed,

wherein when the number of times stored in the memory exceeds a previously determined threshold value, the controller performs control not to perform the communication during previously set time for the operation of the image forming apparatus in which the state has been changed.

3. The image forming apparatus according to claim 2, wherein in a case where the number of times stored in the memory exceeds the previously determined threshold value, when time obtained by subtracting the previously set time for the operation of the image forming apparatus in which the state has been changed from previously set communication time for a previously determined data amount is shorter than time required for the communication for the previously determined data amount, the controller reduces the previously set time for the operation of the image forming apparatus in which the state has been changed.

4. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when the monitor monitors that the state of the communication is abnormal, the controller controls image data transmission/reception based on the operation of the image forming apparatus within the previously determined time including the time point at which the state of the communication has become abnormal.

5. An image forming apparatus comprising:

a monitor that monitors noise which occurs in the image forming apparatus; and

a controller that, when the monitor monitors that the noise has occurred, controls communication based on an operation of the image forming apparatus in which a state has been changed within previously determined time including a time point at which a state of the communication has become abnormal.

6. A computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for image forming, the process comprising:

for a computer of an image forming apparatus,

monitoring a state of communication performed in the image forming apparatus; and

when it is monitored that the state of the communication is abnormal, controlling the communication based on an operation of the image forming apparatus in which a state has been changed within previously determined time including a time point at which the state of the communication has become abnormal.

7. A method for image forming, the method comprising:

monitoring a state of communication performed in a image forming apparatus; and

when it is monitored that the state of the communication is abnormal, controlling the communication based on an operation of the image forming apparatus in which a state has been changed within previously determined time including a time point at which the state of the communication has become abnormal.