Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Printer having powder detection and supply conveyor control
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Application No.: US16799142Application Date: 2020-02-24
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Publication No.: US11061347B2Publication Date: 2021-07-13
- Inventor: Makoto Kanno , Ryo Fukuno , Tomoyuki Hamachi
- Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
- Current Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Sughrue Mion, PLLC
- Priority: JPJP2019-170966 20190920
- Main IPC: G03G15/08
- IPC: G03G15/08

Abstract:
A printer including: a powder housing chamber that houses powder including a color material and carrier; a supplying conveying unit that conveys the powder while supplying the powder to a powder holder that holds the powder, by forward rotation; a detection unit that detects the amount of powder within the powder housing chamber, upstream in a conveyance direction from a discharge unit that discharges surplus powder, downstream in the conveyance direction from the supplying conveying unit, and above a rotary shaft of the supplying conveying unit; and a control unit that controls at least one of the rotation direction and the rotation speed of the supplying conveying unit on the basis of a detection result of the detection unit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210088937A1 PRINTER Public/Granted day:2021-03-25
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