US 12,391,506 B2
Reading apparatus, conveying operation control method and storage medium
Masayuki Watanabe, Fuchu (JP); Hidenori Mine, Tachikawa (JP); Harumitsu Fujimori, Toyokawa (JP); and Takanobu Shiki, Sagamihara (JP)
Assigned to KONICA MINOLTA, INC., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Konica Minolta, Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jun. 1, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/829,639.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-092460 (JP), filed on Jun. 1, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0380164 A1, Dec. 1, 2022
Int. Cl. B65H 29/12 (2006.01); B65H 43/08 (2006.01)
CPC B65H 29/125 (2013.01) [B65H 43/08 (2013.01); B65H 2301/544 (2013.01); B65H 2404/16 (2013.01); B65H 2513/11 (2013.01); B65H 2515/32 (2013.01); B65H 2801/27 (2013.01); B65H 2801/39 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A reading apparatus comprising:
a reader that reads a surface of a recording medium with an image formed;
a conveyor that includes rollers disposed along a conveyance path that passes through a reading area of the reader, and conveys the recording medium being laid across the rollers;
motors that rotate the rollers; and
a hardware processor that
controls operations of the motors such that the rollers located farther downstream in a conveyance direction of the recording medium rotate faster, and
as to at least one motor of the motors, switches between and performs a first control to adjust a rotational speed and a second control to adjust a torque, depending on an operating state of the motor;
wherein the hardware processor performs the second control to control the motor such that the torque falls within a predetermined reference range.