Invention Grant
US08781358B2 Image forming apparatus, image forming method, computer program product, and image forming system
有权
图像形成装置,图像形成方法,计算机程序产品和图像形成系统
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus, image forming method, computer program product, and image forming system
- Patent Title (中): 图像形成装置,图像形成方法,计算机程序产品和图像形成系统
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Application No.: US13401217Application Date: 2012-02-21
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Publication No.: US08781358B2Publication Date: 2014-07-15
- Inventor: Yoshihisa Ashikawa
- Applicant: Yoshihisa Ashikawa
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
- Current Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2011-034924 20110221; JP2012-004064 20120112
- Main IPC: G03G21/00
- IPC: G03G21/00 ; G03G15/08 ; G03G15/02

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a developing unit configured to supply a toner onto a surface of an image carrier to form a toner image carried from a toner container; a transfer unit configured to transfer the toner image onto a transfer medium; a cleaning unit configured to collect a non-transferred toner that is not transferred onto the transfer medium during the transfer by the transfer unit; a recycle unit configured to carry the non-transferred toner to the developing unit; a non-transferred-toner-amount detecting unit configured to detects an amount of the non-transferred toner; a total-toner-amount calculating unit configured to calculates an amount of the toner carried from the toner container; a consumed-toner-amount calculating unit configured to calculate, based on the amounts, a consumed toner amount; and an environmental-load-information calculating unit configured to calculate, based on the consumed toner amount, environmental load information.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120213543A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2012-08-23
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