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US07657194B2 Image forming apparatus and toner supply control program for the same
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图像形成装置和调色剂供应控制程序相同
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus and toner supply control program for the same
- Patent Title (中): 图像形成装置和调色剂供应控制程序相同
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Application No.: US11899475Application Date: 2007-09-06
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Publication No.: US07657194B2Publication Date: 2010-02-02
- Inventor: Tatsuya Tanaka , Katsuhiro Nagayama , Takashi Kitagawa , Masayuki Otsuka
- Applicant: Tatsuya Tanaka , Katsuhiro Nagayama , Takashi Kitagawa , Masayuki Otsuka
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP
- Agent David G. Conlin; Steven M. Jensen
- Priority: JP2006-263801 20060928
- Main IPC: G03G15/08
- IPC: G03G15/08

Abstract:
A digital color copier includes: a toner concentration storage which stores a detected toner concentration of each developer block of multiple developer blocks across an image forming width; a toner consumption predictor for predicting a first predicted toner consumption of toner consumed from developer of every developer block during a first circulation; a toner concentration estimator for estimating, for every developer block, a toner supply point estimate as the toner concentration at a point where toner is supplied, by subtracting the first predicted toner consumption from the associated detected toner concentration and setting up a toner supply target value of the toner to be supplied from a toner supply device to a developing device in accordance with the predicted toner consumption during a second circulation of the developer inside the developing device that follows the first circulation.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080080878A1 Image forming apparatus and toner supply control program for the same Public/Granted day:2008-04-03
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