Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus to which toner container capable of containing two toners having different magnetic permeabilities is capable of being attached
- Patent Title (中): 可以安装能够容纳具有不同磁导率的两个调色剂的调色剂容器的图像形成装置
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Application No.: US14812343Application Date: 2015-07-29
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Publication No.: US09329528B2Publication Date: 2016-05-03
- Inventor: Tatsuo Noda
- Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Current Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Studebaker & Brackett PC
- Priority: JP2014-155263 20140730
- Main IPC: G03G15/08
- IPC: G03G15/08

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a development section, a toner replenishment section, a toner sensor, and a determination section. The new toner container is filled with first and second toners that have different magnetic characteristics. The new container supplies the first toner to the toner replenishment section prior to the second toner. The determination section determines replacement of an existing toner container by a new one upon the output value of the toner sensor changing from a value out of a first-toner output value range to a value therewithin. The first-toner output value range is a range of an output value of the toner sensor in response to the magnetic characteristic of the first tone.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160033895A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND TONER CONTAINER Public/Granted day:2016-02-04
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