US 11,836,403 B2
Schedule adjustment apparatus and image forming system capable of adjusting maintenance schedule of image forming apparatus
Shinji Nakatsuka, Osaka (JP)
Assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc., Osaka (JP)
Filed by KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc., Osaka (JP)
Filed on Aug. 24, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/822,071.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-137451 (JP), filed on Aug. 25, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0064640 A1, Mar. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 3/12 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/1229 (2013.01) [G06F 3/1208 (2013.01); G06F 3/1253 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A schedule adjustment apparatus comprising:
a storage portion for storing a schedule for giving an instruction to perform maintenance of an image forming apparatus;
an acquisition portion for acquiring, from the image forming apparatus, state information indicating a state of an image formed on a sheet by the image forming apparatus;
an adjustment portion for adjusting the schedule based on the state information;
a calculation portion for calculating a time period during which the image forming apparatus forms the image on the sheet; and
a determination portion for determining, based on a result of the calculation by the calculation portion, whether or not the time period during which the image forming apparatus forms the image on the sheet overlaps with a timing of the instruction.