发明授权
- 专利标题: Replenisher supplying method and replenisher supplying apparatus
- 专利标题(中): 补充液供给方式和补充液供给装置
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申请号: US127370申请日: 1993-09-28
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公开(公告)号: US5432583A公开(公告)日: 1995-07-11
- 发明人: Takatoshi Ishikawa , Ken Kawada
- 申请人: Takatoshi Ishikawa , Ken Kawada
- 申请人地址: JPX Kanagawa
- 专利权人: Fuji photo Film Co., Ltd.
- 当前专利权人: Fuji photo Film Co., Ltd.
- 当前专利权人地址: JPX Kanagawa
- 优先权: JPX4-260225 19920929
- 主分类号: G03C5/31
- IPC分类号: G03C5/31 ; G03C7/44 ; G03D3/06 ; G03D3/02
摘要:
A replenisher supplying apparatus includes a plurality of cartridges, a plurality of stock tanks, a plurality of supply devices for supplying the component agents stored in the stock tanks to a processing tank, communication devices for supplying the component agents filled in the cartridges to the stock tanks, detection devices for detecting whether the quantity of each of the component agents stored in the stock tanks has decreased to be equal to or less than a predetermined level, and a control device for operating, at a time when it is judged by the detection devices that the quantity of a component agent stored in one of the stock tanks has decreased to be equal to or less than the predetermined level, and operating one of said supply devices so as to reduce the quantity of a component agent stored in another stock tank to a level equal to or less than the predetermined level, and operating said communication devices so as to supply the component agents to the stock tanks. Since the plural cartridges can be exchanged at one time, the frequency of exchange operation of the cartridges can be reduced, whereby work efficiency is increased.