An apparatus, to control a motor from an instructed phase indicating a motor rotor target phase, includes a detector, a phase determiner, a converter, and a controller. The detector detects a motor winding driving current. The phase determiner determines a rotor rotation phase from the detected driving current. The converter converts a detected current value in a stationary coordinate system into a current value in a rotational coordinate system from the determined rotation phase. The controller includes a first mode for controlling the driving current to cause a determined phase deviation between the instructed and rotation phases to decreased, and a second mode for controlling the driving current from a current having a previously determined magnitude. On switching the mode from the second to the first mode, the first mode target value is set from a driving current value corresponding to a current component represented by the rotational coordinate system.

An apparatus, to control a motor from an instructed phase indicating a motor rotor target phase, includes a detector, a phase determiner, a converter, and a controller. The detector detects a motor winding driving current. The phase determiner determines a rotor rotation phase from the detected driving current. The converter converts a detected current value in a stationary coordinate system into a current value in a rotational coordinate system from the determined rotation phase. The controller includes a first mode for controlling the driving current to cause a determined phase deviation between the instructed and rotation phases to decreased, and a second mode for controlling the driving current from a current having a previously determined magnitude. On switching the mode from the second to the first mode, the first mode target value is set from a driving current value corresponding to a current component represented by the rotational coordinate system.

An image formation control apparatus includes a setting reception section that collectively receives settings of a plurality of adjustment factors with respect to image formation, an instruction section that instructs an image forming apparatus main body to perform adjustments with respect to the settings of the adjustment factors, which are received by the setting reception section, an adjustment result reception section that receives results of the adjustments of the respective adjustment factors, which are instructed by the instruction section, in the image forming apparatus main body, and a controller that performs control such that the results of the adjustments of the respective adjustment factors, which are received by the adjustment result reception section, are stored in company with a recording medium accommodation unit that accommodates a recording medium.

An image formation control apparatus includes a setting reception section that collectively receives settings of a plurality of adjustment factors with respect to image formation, an instruction section that instructs an image forming apparatus main body to perform adjustments with respect to the settings of the adjustment factors, which are received by the setting reception section, an adjustment result reception section that receives results of the adjustments of the respective adjustment factors, which are instructed by the instruction section, in the image forming apparatus main body, and a controller that performs control such that the results of the adjustments of the respective adjustment factors, which are received by the adjustment result reception section, are stored in company with a recording medium accommodation unit that accommodates a recording medium.

An image formation apparatus according to one or more embodiments may include: a first conveyer; a second conveyer provided downstream of the first conveyer; a detector that detects a deflection of the medium between the first and second conveyers; a speed controller that controls a speed of the second conveyer within a first speed range; a calculator that calculates an average convey speed of the second conveyer. The calculator calculates a first average speed in a first period from when a leading end of the medium reaches the second conveyer to when the medium is conveyed a predetermined distance from the second conveyer. The speed controller changes, after the first period elapses, the speed of the second conveyer within a second speed range with the calculated first average convey speed as a criteria speed of the second conveyer, based on the detection result from the detector.

Regarding a restricting member that includes a contact face configured to be brought into contact with at least one portion of edges of a bundle of media mounted on a medium mounting section, and that is configured to be switched to either a blocking attitude for blocking advancement of the edges of the bundle of media into a nip portion between a feeding roller and a separating roller or an opening attitude for permitting the advancement of the edges of the bundle of media into the nip portion, the restricting member allows, in the blocking attitude, an edge shape of the bundle of media in contact with the contact face to be formed into a shape that fills in a tapered space tapering toward the nip portion.

An apparatus, to control a motor from an instructed phase indicating a motor rotor target phase, includes a detector, a phase determiner, a converter, and a controller. The detector detects a motor winding driving current. The phase determiner determines a rotor rotation phase from the detected driving current. The converter converts a detected current value in a stationary coordinate system into a current value in a rotational coordinate system from the determined rotation phase. The controller includes a first mode for controlling the driving current to cause a determined phase deviation between the instructed and rotation phases to decreased, and a second mode for controlling the driving current from a current having a previously determined magnitude. On switching the mode from the second to the first mode, the first mode target value is set from a driving current value corresponding to a current component represented by the rotational coordinate system.

An image forming apparatus including a first sensor configured to output a signal in response to detecting passage of each sheet fed by a sheet feeder, a second sensor configured to output a signal in response to detecting passage of each sheet re-conveyed by a re-conveyance unit, and a controller configured to acquire a passing time period during which a preceding sheet fed by the sheet feeder is passing through the first sensor, based on the signal from the first sensor, determine an adjustment time period between a time when a leading end of the preceding sheet re-conveyed by the re-conveyance unit is detected based on the signal from the second sensor and a time for the sheet feeder to feed a subsequent sheet toward the image forming unit, and control the sheet feeder to feed the subsequent sheet toward the image forming unit with timing adjusted based on the determined adjustment time period.

A belt conveying apparatus includes: an endless belt member; a belt conveying roller that rotatably stretches the belt member; a pair of regulating members, disposed at both end parts of the belt conveying roller, that regulates movement of the belt member in a width direction thereof; a moving mechanism that moves at least one of the pair of regulating members in the width direction; and a supporting member that supports the belt member in an area extending in the width direction after the regulating member has moved.

An image forming apparatus includes: an image former that forms an image on a transfer paper sheet; a colorimeter that reads the image; a conveyor that conveys the transfer paper sheet in the image formation and the reading of the image; and a controller that controls the formation of the image, and the reading and the conveyance of the image, wherein when a first conveyance velocity is a velocity at which the transfer paper sheet is conveyed when the image is formed by the image former, a second conveyance velocity is a velocity that is lower than the first conveyance velocity, and a long paper sheet having a longer transfer sheet length than a predetermined threshold value is used as the transfer paper sheet in an adjustment mode, the controller controls the image former and the conveyor, and controls the colorimeter and the conveyor.