Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Toner container attachment detecting device and image forming apparatus
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Application No.: US15848701Application Date: 2017-12-20
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Publication No.: US10241468B2Publication Date: 2019-03-26
- Inventor: Shizuya Uemura , Tadaharu Kusumi
- Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Applicant Address: JP Tamatsukuri, Chuo-ku, Osaka
- Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Current Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tamatsukuri, Chuo-ku, Osaka
- Agency: IP Business Solutions, LLC
- Priority: JP2016-254401 20161227
- Main IPC: G03G21/18
- IPC: G03G21/18 ; G03G15/00 ; G03G21/16 ; G03G15/06

Abstract:
A toner container attachment detecting device includes a reader-writer, a shutter made with an electrically conductive material and provided movably between an open position where the shutter is kept from influencing a carrier wave radiated from an antenna of the reader-writer and a covering position where the shutter influences the carrier wave, and first and second displacing portions. When the toner container is attached to an apparatus body, the first displacing portion displaces the shutter to the open position. When the toner container is removed from the apparatus body, the second displacing portion displaces the shutter to the covering position. A radio field intensity detecting section of the reader-writer detects a radio field intensity of the carrier wave and a determining section of the reader-writer determines, based on a detection result of the radio field intensity detecting section, whether or not the toner container is attached to the apparatus body.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180181059A1 TONER CONTAINER ATTACHMENT DETECTING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2018-06-28
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