TONER REFILL CARTRIDGE CONNECTED TO MAIN BODY THROUGH INTERFACE BETWEEN DEVELOPMENT CARTRIDGE AND MAIN BODY

    公开(公告)号:US20210080871A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-03-18

    申请号:US17050158

    申请日:2018-11-22

    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a main body, a development cartridge supplying toner accommodated in a toner accommodating portion to an electrostatic latent image formed on a photoconductor to form a toner image, a toner refilling portion in the development cartridge and on which a toner refill cartridge for refilling toner in the toner accommodating portion is mounted, and a controller controlling operations of the image forming apparatus based on a connection between the development cartridge mounted on the main body and the toner refill cartridge mounted on the toner refilling portion. The toner refilling portion connects the toner refill cartridge to the main body through an interface between the development cartridge and the main body.

    HANDLING ABNORMAL OPERATION DURING TONER REFILL

    公开(公告)号:US20230032397A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-02

    申请号:US17963395

    申请日:2022-10-11

    Abstract: An example operation method of an image forming apparatus includes determining a state of a toner refill operation of injecting toner from a toner reload kit (TRK) into a cartridge in the image forming apparatus, based on completion of injecting toner from the TRK into the cartridge, controlling the TRK to store information indicating a toner refill completion in a memory of the TRK, based on completion of injecting toner from the TRK into the cartridge, updating information of an amount of remaining toner of the cartridge based on an amount of the toner injected into the cartridge from the TRK, and based on the information indicating the toner refill completion being stored in the memory of the TRK, unlocking a locking apparatus in the image forming apparatus so the TRK may be removed from the cartridge.

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