Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus and toner supply method
- Patent Title (中): 图像形成装置和调色剂供应方法
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Application No.: US13020405Application Date: 2011-02-03
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Publication No.: US08594519B2Publication Date: 2013-11-26
- Inventor: Naoki Nakatake , Atsushi Takehara , Tetsumaru Fujita , Tomohiro Kubota , Kohta Sakaya
- Applicant: Naoki Nakatake , Atsushi Takehara , Tetsumaru Fujita , Tomohiro Kubota , Kohta Sakaya
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2010-026413 20100209
- Main IPC: G03G15/08
- IPC: G03G15/08

Abstract:
A toner supplying method for supplying toner from a toner container to a developing part that causes toner to adhere to a latent image formed on a latent image carrying member and develops the latent image, includes detecting a toner amount in the developing part as being equal to or less than a predetermined toner amount value; forming a fog detecting image in a case where the toner amount in the developing part is equal to or less than the predetermined toner amount value, and detecting fog; and determining based on the detected fog whether to execute a toner ejecting process of ejecting the toner remaining in the developing part toward the latent image carrying member before supplying the toner to the developing part from the toner container.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110194864A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND TONER SUPPLY METHOD Public/Granted day:2011-08-11
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