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US07657193B2 Consumable management device, image forming apparatus, computer readable medium storing a program, and consumable management method 失效
消耗品管理装置,图像形成装置,存储程序的计算机可读介质,以及消耗品管理方法

  • Patent Title: Consumable management device, image forming apparatus, computer readable medium storing a program, and consumable management method
  • Patent Title (中): 消耗品管理装置,图像形成装置,存储程序的计算机可读介质,以及消耗品管理方法
  • Application No.: US11826464
    Application Date: 2007-07-16
  • Publication No.: US07657193B2
    Publication Date: 2010-02-02
  • Inventor: Yoshinori Wada
  • Applicant: Yoshinori Wada
  • Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
  • Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
  • Current Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
  • Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
  • Agency: Oliff & Berridge PLC
  • Priority: JP2006-319472 20061128
  • Main IPC: G03G15/00
  • IPC: G03G15/00 G03G15/08
Consumable management device, image forming apparatus, computer readable medium storing a program, and consumable management method
Abstract:
A consumable management device includes a life determining unit that determines whether a consumable reaching a life end exists in an object apparatus which operates with a plurality of consumables or not, a stop process unit that, when the life determining unit determines that a consumable reaching a life end exists, performs a stop process of stopping the operation of the object apparatus, an additional replacement determining unit that, when the object apparatus is to be stopped, determines whether, in addition to replacement or replenishment of the consumable, a consumable which is to be replaced or replenished exists or not, and a notification process unit that, when the additional replacement determining unit determines that a consumable which is to be additionally replaced or replenished exists, performs a notification process of notifying an operator that the consumable which is to be additionally replaced or replenished is to be replaced or replenished.
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