JPH05103182A - Facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To secure the transmission by informing a transmission source that a receiving document has been delivered to a receiver. CONSTITUTION:A stacker sensor 5 sends a received document detection signal to a system control part 1 when the received document is stacked on a stacker. When the printing of all the picture data is ended and the received document is taken out from the stacker, the stacker sensor 5 sends a received document elimination signal to the system control part 1. Receiving the received document elimination signal, the system control part 1 starts a communication control part 3 to originate a call to a transmission source telephone number held in a memory part 4, sending a received document elimination signal. In short, the transmission source is informed of the delivery of the incoming document, thus securing the transmission.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a facsimile apparatus capable of notifying a sender that a received document has been handed, that is, guaranteeing delivery.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a facsimile machine, received documents are automatically stacked on a stacker. This stack of received documents is manually retrieved at a reasonable time.

[0003]

However, according to such a conventional facsimile apparatus, there is no way for the sender to know whether the transmitted document really reaches the person on the receiving side, and there is some anxiety. I was letting you.

[0004]

The present invention has been made in order to solve such a problem, and detects whether or not received documents are stacked on the stacker, and based on the detection result. , The sender is notified that the received documents stacked on the stacker have been taken out.

[0005]

According to the present invention, therefore, when the received document stacked on the stacker is taken out, the fact that the document is taken out is notified to the sender who sent the received document.

[0006]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A facsimile apparatus according to the present invention will be described in detail below.

FIG. 1 is a system block diagram showing an embodiment of this facsimile apparatus. In the figure, 1 is a system control unit, 2 is a printing unit, 3 is a communication control unit, 4 is a memory, 5 is a stacker sensor, and L is a telephone line.

When the image data and the own telephone number (source telephone number) are sent from the source via the telephone line L, the communication control section 3 stores the received source telephone number in the memory 4. Hold. The communication control unit 3 also sends the received image data to the printing unit 2. The printing unit 2 prints the sent image data on recording paper. The printed recording sheets are stacked as a received document on a stacker (not shown).

The stacker sensor 5 is attached to the stacker, and when received documents are stacked on the stacker, the stacked received documents (recording paper) are sensed and a received document detection signal is sent to the system control unit 1. ..

When printing of all the image data is completed and the received document is taken out from the stacker by hand in time, the stacker sensor 5 senses this state and the system controller 1 receives the received document removal signal. To send.

Upon receiving the received document removal signal, the system control unit 1 activates the communication control unit 3 to call the transmission source telephone number held in the memory unit 4, and sends the received document removal signal.

That is, according to the present embodiment, when the received document stacked on the stacker is taken out, the received document removal signal is sent to the sender who sent the received document.
That is, according to the present embodiment, the sender is notified that the received document has been handed to the person, and the delivery is guaranteed by this.

[0013]

As is apparent from the above description, according to the present invention, when the received document stacked on the stacker is taken out, the fact that the taken out document is taken out is notified to the sender who sent the received document. That is, the sender is notified that the received document has been delivered to a person, and the delivery is guaranteed thereby.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a system block diagram showing an embodiment of a facsimile apparatus according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 system control unit 2 printing unit 3 communication control unit 4 memory 5 stacker sensor

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A facsimile apparatus for automatically stacking received documents on a stacker, the received document detecting unit detecting whether or not the received documents are stacked on the stacker, and the detection by the received document detecting unit. A facsimile apparatus, comprising: a received document take-out notifying means for notifying a sender that a received document stacked on the stacker has been taken out based on a result.