Image forming apparatus of calculating power consumption amount

A technology that consumes electricity and images, and is applied in the direction of electrical recording technology applying charge patterns, equipment for electrical recording technology applying charge patterns, electrical recording techniques, etc., and can solve problems such as not raised

Active Publication Date: 2013-04-10
KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECH INC
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[0032] That is, there has not been proposed an appropriate power measurement method that takes into account product cost and development cost when improving the detection accuracy of power consumption of an image forming apparatus.

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[0069] Hereinafter, one embodiment of the present invention will be described based on the drawings.

[0070] In this embodiment, the image forming apparatus performs image formation by an electrophotographic method, an electrostatic recording method, or the like, and it is performed for a case of an MFP having a scanner function, a facsimile function, a copy function, a printer function, a data communication function, and a server function. illustrate. The image forming apparatus may be a facsimile apparatus, a copier such as a PPC (Plain Paper Copier) copier, or a printer such as a laser printer, in addition to the MFP. In addition, the image forming apparatus can form an arbitrary monochrome or color image, and can also form an image in any of an analog method and a digital method.

[0071] [Configuration of image forming apparatus]

[0072] First, the configuration of the image forming apparatus of the present embodiment will be described.

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An image forming apparatus includes a first power calculator for calculating a power consumption amount of a driving load unit and a post-processing device based on at least one of measured values of a voltage and a current, which are supplied to the driving load unit and the post-processing device; second and third power calculators for calculating power consumption amounts of a fixing heater driving unit and a controller based on an operating state and an operating time of the image forming apparatus; and a power summing-up unit for calculating a power consumption amount of the image forming apparatus by summing up the power consumption amount calculated by the first power calculator and the power consumption amount predicted by each of the second and third power calculators.

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[0001] This application is based on Japanese Patent Applications No. 2011-222404 and No. 2011-222536 filed with Japan Patent Office on October 7, 2011, the entire contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference. technical field [0002] The present invention relates to image forming apparatuses, and more particularly, to image forming apparatuses such as copiers, facsimile machines, and various printers. Background technique [0003] Among the electrophotographic image forming apparatuses, there are MFP (Multi Function Peripheral) having a scanning function, a facsimile function, a copying function, a printer function, a data communication function, and a server function, a facsimile machine, a copier, a printer, and the like. [0004] Due to increasing interest in the world's environment, increasing desire to save energy, or increasing desire to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, expectations for reducing power consumption of image forming apparatuses represented by MFP...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): G03G15/00G03G21/00
CPCG03G15/5004G03G15/80
Inventor 奥西一雄浅川稔田中裕东奈津世
Owner KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECH INC
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