16-6. Paper Empty Detection
When the Drawer runs out of paper, the Actuator for the Paper Empty
Sensor drops into the cutout in the Paper Lifting Plate. This activates the
Paper Empty Sensor and the copier will know that the Drawer has run out of
paper.
As we noted earlier, the Paper Lifting Plate is raised at all times by the
Paper Lifting Springs. To prevent the Actuator for the Paper Empty Sensor
(PC101) from being caught by the paper stack when the Drawer is slid out of
the copier, therefore, it is tilted only slightly. This, however, results in the
operating stroke of the Actuator becoming small, which increases the
possibility of the Actuator activating the Sensor by the flexing of a sheet of
paper as it is taken up and fed in. To prevent this false detection of a
paper-empty condition, the paper empty detection is enabled only when the
Paper Take-Up Roll is in the retracted position. (See 21-8. "Paper Take-Up
Roll" for the retracted position of the Paper Take-Up Roll.)
Paper Empty Sensor
Actuator
1142C04MAA
M-57 |
ACEC
MINOLTA
