Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus and image forming system
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Application No.: US15039823Application Date: 2014-11-18
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Publication No.: US09772591B2Publication Date: 2017-09-26
- Inventor: Satoru Taniguchi , Wataru Uchida , Hiroyuki Yamazaki , Toshifumi Kitamura
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Canon USA, Inc. I.P. Division
- Priority: JP2013-248443 20131129
- International Application: PCT/JP2014/005773 WO 20141118
- International Announcement: WO2015/079650 WO 20150604
- Main IPC: G03G15/00
- IPC: G03G15/00

Abstract:
To notify a residual life of a replaceable part at appropriate time on image quality required by the user. An image forming apparatus including: a replaceable part used for image formation; an output unit configured to output information indicating that a usage amount has reached a threshold; an input unit configured to input information; and a control unit configured to change the threshold in accordance with information about image quality input by the input unit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160378034A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2016-12-29
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