Burns, Doane, Swecker & Mathis
Image forming apparatus having a jam counter adapted to be disabled until a ready for copy state is confirmed
 An image forming apparatus including a sheet supply assembly capable of successively supplying sheet media, an image producing stage for producing an image on each of the sheet media supplied from a sheet supply, a sheet discharge roller for discharging from the image producing stage each of the sheet media each having an image produced thereon, sensors for detecting an occurrence of jamming of a sheet medium between the sheet supply and discharge assemblies, a jam counter operative to count the number of occurrences of jamming of the sheet medium, the jam counter being activated each time an occurrence of jamming is detected by any of the sensors, and a control circuit for monitoring the operational conditions of the image producing stage responsive to a sheet medium supplied from the sheet supply assembly after an occurrence of jamming of a sheet medium has been detected by any of the sensors, and disabling the jam counter depending on the monitored operational conditions of the image producing stage. 
Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
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inventional inventional
Hirokazu Keiji Hiroyuki
Yamada Kusumoto Ideyama