Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Consumables discharge device, image forming apparatus, multifunction machine, and consumables discharge method
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Application No.: US16370619Application Date: 2019-03-29
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Publication No.: US10539913B2Publication Date: 2020-01-21
- Inventor: Kiyoto Motoyama
- Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Sakai, Osaka
- Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Sakai, Osaka
- Agency: ScienBiziP, P.C.
- Priority: JP2018-072454 20180404
- Main IPC: G03G15/08
- IPC: G03G15/08 ; G03G15/00 ; G03G15/16

Abstract:
Provided is a consumables discharge device that discharges toner via an image carrier and an intermediate transfer body including a patch forming unit that forms a patch in a patch printing region to be formed on the intermediate transfer body via the image carrier by using the toner discharged from a developer tank after adjusting a range of the patch printing region in one or both of a gap region existing between image forming regions adjacent to each other of the intermediate transfer body and both end regions adjacent to both ends of an image forming region in a width direction of the intermediate transfer body, based on one or both of a size and a direction of a recording medium to be printed as input information.
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