Analysis apparatus and analysis method

• US 8,185,340 B2
• Filed: 04/08/2009
• Issued: 05/22/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/08/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Taki, Kenji, Watanabe, Tomohiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Le, John H
• Application Number:
  US12/420,581
• Publication Number:
  US 20090252511A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,140 Days
• Field of Search: 702/41, 702/81, 702/85, 702/127, 702/141, 73/645.6, 382/239, 399/45
• US Class Current: 702/127
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/50 Machine control of apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern, e.g. regulating differents parts of the machine, multimode copiers, microprocessor control sequencing control G03G21/14
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/502 relating to the structure of the control menu, e.g. pop-up menus, help screens

Abstract

A recording-medium-type setting unit selects a type of a recording medium to be analyzed on the basis of information input with an input unit. A threshold-value setting unit sets a threshold value on which the determination of whether the calculation result is output in a file is based for each recording medium type selected by the recording-medium-type setting unit. An amount-of-variation calculating unit calculates the reaction force for every time step, stores the reaction force in the current time step in time integration in a RAM during the calculation, and monitors the amount of variation in the reaction force between each time step and the next time step. A file-output controlling unit calculates the difference between the reaction force stored by the amount-of-variation calculating unit and the reaction force in the current time step and, if the difference is larger than the threshold value, performs file output.

Claims

1. An analysis apparatus comprising:

a threshold-value setting unit configured to set a type of a recording medium to be analyzed and a threshold value;

a calculating unit configured to calculate a physical quantity concerning the recording medium when the recording medium is being conveyed in a conveying path that is designed and to store the calculated physical quantity in a storage unit,

wherein the physical quantity is a reaction force exerted on the recording medium; and

an output unit configured to output the physical quantity on a cycle longer than that in a case where an amount of variation in the physical quantity calculated by the calculating unit exceeds the threshold value, if the amount of variation in the physical quantity is less than the threshold value.

2. The analysis apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the physical quantity includes an acceleration and a velocity of the recording medium.

3. The analysis apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the threshold-value setting unit reads out the threshold value from a database in which each type of the recording medium is associated with a rigidity and sets the readout threshold value.

4. The analysis apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the threshold-value setting unit sets a value input through an interface as the threshold value.

5. An analysis method performed by an analyzing apparatus including at least one processor and memory communicatively-coupled via a bus, comprising:

setting a type of a recording medium to be analyzed and a threshold value;

calculating a physical quantity concerning the recording medium when the recording medium is being conveyed in a conveying path that is designed and storing the calculated physical quantity in a storage unit,

wherein the physical quantity is a reaction force exerted on the recording medium; and

outputting the physical quantity on a cycle longer than that in a case where an amount of variation in the calculated physical quantity exceeds the threshold value, if the amount of variation in the physical quantity is less than the threshold value.

6. A computer-readable storage medium storing a computer-executable process, the computer-executable process causing a computer to execute a method comprising:

setting a type of a recording medium to be analyzed and a threshold value;

calculating a physical quantity concerning the recording medium when the recording medium is being conveyed in a conveying path that is designed and storing the calculated physical quantity in a storage unit,

wherein the physical quantity is a reaction force exerted on the recording medium; and

outputting the physical quantity on a cycle longer than that in a case where an amount of variation in the calculated physical quantity exceeds the threshold value, if the amount of variation in the physical quantity is less than the threshold value.