Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus which predicts a degree of consumption of a photosensitive body
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Application No.: US15812020Application Date: 2017-11-14
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Publication No.: US10203643B2Publication Date: 2019-02-12
- Inventor: Tomohisa Yoshida
- Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
- Current Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Holtz, Holtz & Volek PC
- Priority: JP2016-243671 20161215
- Main IPC: G03G15/00
- IPC: G03G15/00 ; G03G21/00 ; G03G21/16

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device that forms an image by an electrophotographic method, wherein the image forming device includes the photosensitive body on which two or more layers are laminated, and further includes a hardware processor that predicts a degree of consumption of a photosensitive body, and the hardware processor specifies timing when a layer begins to lie on an outermost side, the layer being one of the two or more layers and lying on the outermost side at time of predicting the degree of consumption, and uses an electrical characteristic of the image forming device after the timing specified, to predict the degree of consumption of the photosensitive body.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180173147A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2018-06-21
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