US 12,404,126 B2
Recording material conveyance apparatus, image forming system, recording material conveyance method, and storage medium
Syunji Shimokawa, Tokyo (JP); and Hiroyuki Konishi, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to KONICA MINOLTA, INC., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Konica Minolta, Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jun. 15, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/335,295.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-098510 (JP), filed on Jun. 20, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0406654 A1, Dec. 21, 2023
Int. Cl. B65H 3/44 (2006.01); B65H 5/26 (2006.01); B65H 7/02 (2006.01); B65H 7/06 (2006.01); B65H 7/20 (2006.01); B65H 43/04 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01)
CPC B65H 3/44 (2013.01) [B65H 3/446 (2013.01); B65H 5/26 (2013.01); B65H 7/02 (2013.01); B65H 7/06 (2013.01); B65H 7/20 (2013.01); B65H 43/04 (2013.01); G03G 15/5029 (2013.01); G03G 15/6508 (2013.01); B65H 2301/13 (2013.01); B65H 2301/14 (2013.01); B65H 2405/332 (2013.01); B65H 2515/70 (2013.01); B65H 2515/805 (2013.01); B65H 2801/06 (2013.01)] 27 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A recording material conveyance apparatus comprising:
a hardware processor that
(i) is capable of performing switching control of, in response to, among a plurality of recording material housing sections that house recording materials, a first recording material housing section becoming out of recording material while a recording material fed from the first recording material housing section is being conveyed, selecting a second recording material housing section to cause a recording material housed in the second recording material housing section to be conveyed, and
(ii) in the switching control, selects the second recording material housing section based on a physical property value of each of the recording materials of the plurality of recording material housing sections; and
a measurement section that measures the physical property value of each of the recording materials of the plurality of recording material housing sections, the physical property value corresponding to a physical property;
wherein the physical property value includes a physical property value corresponding to the physical property that varies depending on an environment of the recording materials.