Photocopying – Contact printing – Light boxes
Patent
1995-11-21
1996-09-03
Smith, Matthew S.
Photocopying
Contact printing
Light boxes
364187, 3642763, 395180, 39518213, G03G 1500, G03G 2100
Patent
active
055528600
ABSTRACT:
For an image reproducing system provided with an auto-restoration capability, a monitoring system is disclosed involving display by an image reproducing machine of the system in connection with fault diagnosis and auto-restoration processes by the image reproducing machine. The disclosed monitoring system in particular concerns a network of likewise auto-restoring image reproducing machines in communication with a host computer. The image reproducing machine has machine-condition constant-monitoring sensors through which a main controller of the image reproducing machine detects faults causing operational malfunction. A communication device transmits data indicating operational malfunction in an image reproducing machine from its main controller to the host computer. The main controller prepares and executes an auto-restoration process implementing restorative operations to compensate functionally for the detected faults, and interprets as restorative state data success of implemented restorative operations. A restoration process data storage of the image reproducing system stores data identifying an executed auto-restoration process. The restoration process data and the restorative state data are displayed by an image reproducing system display, which display can be by the host computer, as monitored at a remote service station by a service engineer.
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Aizawa Fumio
Hashimoto Yasuhiro
Nagira Jiro
Yamashita Yuji
Chen Sophia S.
Mita Industrial Co. Ltd.
Smith Matthew S.
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