Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Lubricant supplying device, and image forming apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 润滑剂供给装置和图像形成装置
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Application No.: US13848307Application Date: 2013-03-21
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Publication No.: US08855507B2Publication Date: 2014-10-07
- Inventor: Hideyasu Seki , Satoshi Hatori , Naohiro Kumagai , Kaoru Yoshino , Akira Fujimori , Ryohta Gotoh , Nobuyuki Taguchi , Hiromichi Ninomiya , Yuta Azeyanagi , Yasuhito Kuboshima
- Applicant: Hideyasu Seki , Satoshi Hatori , Naohiro Kumagai , Kaoru Yoshino , Akira Fujimori , Ryohta Gotoh , Nobuyuki Taguchi , Hiromichi Ninomiya , Yuta Azeyanagi , Yasuhito Kuboshima
- 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: JP2012-063099 20120321; JP2012-153495 20120709
- Main IPC: G03G15/00
- IPC: G03G15/00 ; G03G21/00

Abstract:
In the present invention, a lubricant supplying device includes a lubricant end determining unit that determines that a solid lubricant is in an end state when the amount of a lubricant supplying operation reaches a threshold after a residual amount detecting unit detects that the residual amount of the solid lubricant is equal to or smaller than a predetermined amount. The lubricant end determining unit makes a threshold of the amount of the lubricant supplying operation at temperature or humidity of equal to or lower than a predetermined value lower than a threshold of the amount of the lubricant supplying operation at temperature or humidity of higher than the predetermined value.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130251381A1 LUBRICANT SUPPLYING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2013-09-26
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