EP0509528A2
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Equipment control apparatus
Assignee: Canon Inc
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Filing: 1992-04-16
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Granted: —
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Expires: 2012-04-16
Abstract
Abstract An equipment controlling apparatus is composed of a counter for counting the operational number of the equipment, memories for storing data indicating the state of the equipment, communication means (900) for communicating the stored data with a centralized control apparatus (999) which controls the communicated data intensively, and controlling means for causing the stored data to be transmitted to the centralized control apparatus (999) when the counter has counted a predetermined value.
Inventors
- 👤 Satoshi C/O Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Kuroyanagi
- 👤 Masanori c/o Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Miyata
- 👤 Hideki C/O Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Adachi
- 👤 Shinichi C/O Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Nakamura
- 👤 Naoyuki C/O Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Ohki
- 👤 Tokuharu C/O Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Kaneko
- 👤 Hiroshi c/o Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Ozaki
- 👤 Hisatsugu C/O Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Tahara
- 👤 Satoshi c/o Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Kaneko
- 👤 Taisei c/o Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Fukada
- 👤 Mitsuharu c/o Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Takizawa
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
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Data Source
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Last Synchronized
2026-11-09 12:37
CPC Classifications
G; G06; G06F; G06F11/00; G06F11/07; G06F11/0703; G06F11/0706; G06F11/0733; G03; G03G; G03G15/00; G03G15/50; G03G15/5075; G03G15/5079; G03G21/00; G03G21/16; G03G21/1642; G03G21/1652; G06F11/0748; H; H04; H04M; H04M11/00; H04M11/007; G03G15/55; G03G2215/00; G03G2215/00025; G03G2215/00109; G03G2221/00; G03G2221/16; G03G2221/1672; G03G2221/1675; G03G2221/1696; G06F11/22; G06F11/2294; G06F11/30
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 33
Claim 1
Independent Claim
72 words
An equipment controlling apparatus comprising: counting means for counting an operational number of an equipment; storage means for storing data indicating a state of the equipment; communication means for communicating on said data with a centralized control apparatus for controlling said data intensively; and controlling means for causing the stored data in said storage means to be transmitted to said centralized control apparatus when said counting means is counted a predetermined value.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
19 words
An equipment controlling apparatus according to Claim 1, wherein said controlling means resets said counter after data is transmitted.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
36 words
An equipment controlling apparatus according to Claim 1, wherein said apparatus further comprises setting means for setting numeral values, and said counting means performs its counting up to a numeral value set by said setting means.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
37 words
An equipment controlling apparatus according to Claim 1, wherein said equipment is a recording apparatus for recording an image on a recording medium, said equipment being capable of transmitting data regarding the abnormality of said recording apparatus.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
39 words
An equipment controlling apparatus according to Claim 1, wherein said equipment is a recording apparatus for recording an image on a recording medium, said equipment being capable of transmitting data regarding number of recorded sheets by said recording apparatus.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
106 words
An equipment controlling apparatus comprising: storage means for storing data indicating a state of an equipment; communication means for communicating on said data with a centralized control apparatus for controlling said data intensively; and controlling means for causing the stored data in said storage means to be transmitted to said centralized control apparatus when a request for transmission of said data is received from said equipment or said centralized control apparatus, wherein said controlling means enables said data to be transmitted after an operation of said equipment is terminated when the request for the transmission of said data is received during the operation of said equipment.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
36 words
An equipment controlling apparatus according to Claim 6, wherein said controlling means allows said data to be transmitted after a passage of a predetermined period of time since the termination of the operation of said equipment.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
50 words
An equipment controlling apparatus according to Claim 7, wherein said equipment is a recording apparatus for recording an image on a recording medium, said equipment being capable of causing said data to be transmitted after the passage of a predetermined period of time since the termination of the recording operation.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
73 words
An equipment controlling apparatus comprising: storage means for storing data indicating a state of an equipment; communication means for communicating on said data with a centralized control apparatus for controlling said data intensively, said centralized control apparatus being located at a position apart from said equipment; and controlling means for causing the data stored in said storage means to be transmitted to said centralized control apparatus at intervals of predetermined period of time.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
44 words
An equipment controlling apparatus according to Claim 9, wherein said apparatus further comprises detecting means for detecting frequency of abnormality occurrence in said equipment, and said controlling means modifies time intervals for transmitting said data in accordance with detection results of said detecting means.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
20 words
An equipment controlling apparatus according to Claim 10, wherein said controlling means shortens said time intervals when abnormality often occurs.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
23 words
An equipment controlling apparatus according to Claim 9, wherein said equipment is a recording apparatus for recording an image on a recording medium.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
86 words
An equipment controlling apparatus comprising: storage means for storing data indicating a state of an equipment; communication means for communicating on said data with a centralized control apparatus for controlling said data intensively; detecting means for detecting abnormality of said equipment; and controlling means for causing said data to be transmitted to said centralized control apparatus when the abnormality is detected by said detecting means and said data to be transmitted at intervals of predetermined period of time irrespective of detection results of said detecting means.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
23 words
An equipment controlling apparatus according to Claim 13, wherein said equipment is a recording apparatus for recording an image on a recording medium.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
40 words
An equipment controlling apparatus according to Claim 12, wherein said data are date and time when defective feeding of the recording medium occurs, total counting value of image formations when the defective feeding occurs, and kinds of the defective feeding.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
38 words
An equipment controlling apparatus according to Claim 12, wherein said data are date and time when abnormal control of image formation occurs, total counting value of image formations when defective feeding occurs, and kinds of the defective feeding.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
43 words
An equipment controlling apparatus according to Claim 12, wherein said data are date and time of transmission, kinds of transmission, and results of the transmission of the stored data in said storage means transmitted to said centralized control apparatus by the communication means.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
96 words
An equipment controlling apparatus comprising: storage means for storing common data indicating a state of an equipment, which are common to different kinds of equipment from said equipment, and specific data indicating the state of the equipment, which are not common and cannot be used by the different kinds of equipment from said equipment; communication means for communicating with a centralized control apparatus which controls said common data and said specific data intensively; and controlling means for discriminating said common data and said specific data and causing them to be transmitted to said centralized control apparatus.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
50 words
An equipment controlling apparatus according to Claim 18, wherein said storage means has addresses for storing said common data and said specific data separately, and the addresses for storing said common data are a common area for each equipment stored in said storage means irrespective of kinds of the equipment.
Claim 20
Dependent Claim
22 words
An equipment controlling apparatus according to Claim 18, wherein said controlling means causes relative address from head of data to be transmitted.
Claim 21
Dependent Claim
61 words
An equipment controlling apparatus comprising: storage means for storing data indicating a state of an equipment; communication means for communicating with a first and second centralized control apparatuses for controlling said data intensively; and controlling means for executing controls so that when no communication is possible with said first centralized control apparatus, communication is performed with said second centralized control apparatus.
Claim 22
Dependent Claim
42 words
An equipment controlling apparatus according to Claim 21, wherein said controlling means attempts communicating with said second centralized control apparatus when communication with said first centralized control apparatus is not possible even after its communication has been attempted for a predetermined times.
Claim 23
Dependent Claim
44 words
An equipment controlling apparatus according to Claim 21, wherein when no communication with said first centralized control apparatus is possible even after its communication has been attempted for a predetermined times, said controlling means does not communicate with said first centralized control apparatus thereafter.
Claim 24
Dependent Claim
52 words
An equipment controlling apparatus comprising: storage means for storing data indicating a state of an image formation apparatus for recording an image on a recording medium; communication means for communicating with an external apparatus; and transmission instruction means for instructing transmission of stored data in said storage means to said external apparatus.
Claim 25
Dependent Claim
24 words
An equipment controlling apparatus according to Claim 24, wherein said transmission instruction means issues its instruction when abnormality occurs in said image formation apparatus.
Claim 26
Dependent Claim
22 words
An equipment controlling apparatus according to Claim 24, wherein said transmission instruction means issues its instruction when a predetermined time has arrived.
Claim 27
Dependent Claim
31 words
An equipment controlling apparatus according to Claim 24, wherein said transmission instruction means issues its instruction when a predetermined number of image recordings has been performed by said image formation apparatus.
Claim 28
Dependent Claim
31 words
An equipment controlling apparatus according to Claim 24, wherein said transmission instruction means issues its instruction when trouble has occurred in said image formation apparatus with respect to said recording medium.
Claim 29
Dependent Claim
26 words
An equipment controlling apparatus according to Claim 24, wherein said transmission instruction means issues its instruction when expendables consumed by said image formation apparatus are exhausted.
Claim 30
Dependent Claim
28 words
An equipment controlling apparatus according to Claim 25, wherein said transmission instruction means issues its instruction when expendables consumed by said image formation apparatus are replaced or replenished.
Claim 31
Dependent Claim
40 words
An equipment controlling apparatus according to Claim 14, wherein said data are date and time when defective feeding of the recording medium occurs, total counting value of image formations when the defective feeding occurs, and kinds of the defective feeding.
Claim 32
Dependent Claim
38 words
An equipment controlling apparatus according to Claim 14, wherein said data are date and time when abnormal control of image formation occurs, total counting value of image formations when defective feeding occurs, and kinds of the defective feeding.
Claim 33
Dependent Claim
43 words
An equipment controlling apparatus according to Claim 14, wherein said data are date and time of transmission, kinds of transmission, and results of the transmission of the stored data in said storage means transmitted to said centralized control apparatus by the communication means.
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