Image Forming Apparatus Error Clearing Method Display
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing image forming apparatuses require multiple opening and closing operations of the cover to perform clearing operations for multiple errors simultaneously, which is inefficient and may reduce user satisfaction.
Innovation Solution
An image forming apparatus with a processor that displays clearing methods for errors sequentially on a display part, allowing for temporary clearing instructions and resuming job processing once all errors are cleared, thereby enabling collective checking of clearing operations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If multiple clearing operations are performed simultaneously for multiple errors, then the clearing efficiency is improved, but the operation complexity increases requiring multiple cover opening and closing operations
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by temporarily clearing multiple errors in advance and storing their clearing methods. When the cover is opened, all stored clearing methods are collectively checked and validated, allowing the user to clear multiple errors with a single cover operation rather than requiring separate operations for each error.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges multiple error clearing operations into a single collective checking process. By combining the validation of multiple clearing methods into one unified operation triggered by a single cover opening, the system achieves both high clearing efficiency and operational simplicity.
2Device complexity
If the cover opening and closing operation is used as a trigger for checking clearing operations, then the checking mechanism is simplified, but multiple triggers are required for multiple errors
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by pre-storing clearing methods for multiple errors before the cover operation. This allows the single cover opening to trigger a collective checking of all stored clearing methods simultaneously, eliminating the need for multiple sequential cover operations.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a copy mechanism by storing clearing methods in memory before the cover operation. The stored clearing methods are then validated collectively in one operation, rather than requiring the physical cover operation to be repeated for each error check.
3Ease of operation
If error clearing methods are displayed sequentially one at a time, then the display is simple and clear, but the user must perform multiple operations to clear multiple errors
Solution Approach 1:
The system prepares multiple clearing methods in advance and stores them in memory. When the cover is opened, all stored clearing methods are displayed and validated collectively in a single operation, allowing users to clear multiple errors simultaneously while maintaining the simplicity of sequential display.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges the display and validation of multiple clearing methods into a single collective process. By combining multiple sequential display operations into one unified display triggered by a single cover opening, the system improves clearing speed while maintaining display simplicity.
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AI summary
An image forming apparatus includes a processor configured to display a clearing method for clearing an initial error among errors that have occurred, on a display part, while the clearing method of the initial error of which the clearing method is displayed on the display part is displayed, receive a temporary clearing instruction for processing the initial error as being temporarily cleared, each time the temporary clearing instruction is received, display clearing methods of subsequent errors on the display part in order in a switched manner, and in a case where clearing operations for all clearing methods of the errors that have occurred are completed, resume processing of a job paused by the errors.