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8179540 Image forming apparatus and management system utilizing counter and job log information for usage tracking  
An image forming apparatus is provided that holds counter information obtained by integrating a consumption of a consumable that depends on usage of service provided by the image forming apparatus....
8174714 System and method for management of consumable items in an image forming apparatus  
An image forming apparatus of an embodiment of the invention includes a first storage unit to store, based on stored information stored in wireless tags attached to a plurality of consumable items,...
8135291 Consumable part for an image forming apparatus and a control method thereof  
An image forming apparatus includes a detachable consumable part having a storage unit configured to store information. The image forming apparatus includes a counting unit configured to count the...
8135311 Developing unit having effective developer transportability, and process cartridge and image forming apparatus using the same  
A developing unit includes a developer carrying member, a supplying compartment, a recovery compartment, and an agitation compartment. The developer carrying member develops a latent image formed...
8086115 Consumable management system and image forming apparatus  
An image forming apparatus includes: a predicting unit that predicts a prediction lifetime of a consumable that is detachably mounted in the image forming apparatus, based on consumption...
8081887 Selective print job aggregation  
A selective job aggregation method includes identifying a predetermined usage match between a first consumable component and a second consumable component of printer device. Print jobs are then...
8036542 Image forming apparatus and control method thereof  
Disclosed are an image forming apparatus and a control method thereof. The control method of an image forming apparatus includes mounting a cartridge including a status indicating element,...
8027595 Method and apparatus to store information on amount of toner used, and image forming device using the same  
A method and apparatus to store information on an amount of toner used. The method includes determining whether a customer replaceable unit monitor (CRUM) memory to store information on an amount...
8014012 Software upgrades from a printer module with on-board intelligence  
An intelligent on-board monitoring system for replaceable module for a printing apparatus includes a memory element, an input for receiving information either from sensors on the replaceable...
7995934 Developing device, image forming apparatus, and process unit  
An information attaching unit attaches either one of carrier density information of initial developer and loose apparent density information of toner in the initial developer to a housing of a...
7995933 Process cartridge for use in image forming apparatus and image forming apparatus  
In an image forming apparatus employing a process cartridge for image forming apparatus which is equipped with a chip including a rewritable non-volatile memory, the non-volatile memory at least...
7986887 Image forming apparatus  
An image forming apparatus is supplied capable of adopting low price structure to obtain information that is stored in a storing section and is used for analyzing reason of failure/repair. The...
7970293 Methods and systems relating to image forming apparatuses  
The invention describes an image forming apparatus having a cartridge configured to be removably attached to a main body. The cartridge has a rotational body positioned within the cartridge and an...
7957689 Image forming apparatus  
An image-forming apparatus includes a body casing having on upper surface thereof a paper ejection tray on which a sheet of paper ejected after formation of an image is stacked; a side cover...
7826779 Developer cartridge  
A developer cartridge has: a first body having an opening; a memory unit that has a contact terminal, the memory unit is provided at the first body; and a second body that covers the first body,...
7826768 Cartridge and image forming device  
A cartridge according to one aspect of the invention is detachably attachable to a main body including a first terminal. The cartridge comprises: a case; a memory device configured to store...
7826780 Developer cartridge  
A developer cartridge that can be attached to and detached from an image forming apparatus and contains developer, the developer cartridge includes: a first body that has an opening for supplying...
7805086 Image forming apparatus  
An image forming apparatus in which the consumption article can be attached to and detached from a main body has a controller, which reads first new/old information that is stored in a repetitively...
7769307 Information processing apparatus and information processing method  
An information processing apparatus configured to monitor a status of consumables of an image forming apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store the status of the consumables of the...
7761014 Image forming cartridge usage storage apparatus  
An image forming apparatus includes: plural cartridges; a storage unit provided in the respective cartridges; and a writing unit that writes data into the storage unit. The writing unit writes data...
7747179 Image forming apparatus and storage thereof  
An image forming apparatus manages information regarding the lifetimes of a plurality of photosensitive media or developing units using a single storage. The image forming apparatus includes a...
7738829 Process cartridge including photoconductor pre-coated with protective agent and image forming apparatus using same  
A process cartridge includes a protective agent, a photoconductor, a charging unit, a development unit, a cleaning unit, and an application unit. The protective agent includes paraffin as main...
7736827 Developer recycling method  
In a method for recycling a double component developer that contains a carrier and a toner used for an image forming device such as office automation equipment, an economic value of recycling is...
7734200 Lifetime management device and image forming system  
An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus that includes process units for different colors and a lifetime management device that manages lifetime information on each unit of the...
7729623 Image forming apparatus and image forming method thereof  
An image forming apparatus including an image forming unit which comprises a cartridge having a toner therein to form an image and a controller to control the image forming unit to increase a...
7693431 Image forming apparatus and control method therefor  
An image forming apparatus which is capable of performing a failsafe image forming operation even when a memory device of a replaceable unit mounted thereon is faulty. A controller of the image...
7684714 Image forming device  
An image forming device. A direct voltage power supply is independently provided for each charging device for each color, and an alternating voltage power supply is commonly provided to the...
7676164 Lifetime management device and image forming system  
In an image forming system, a lifetime management device calculates remaining lifetime of process units, a transfer unit, a secondary transfer unit, a belt cleaning unit and a fixing unit mounted...
7657193 Consumable management device, image forming apparatus, computer readable medium storing a program, and consumable management method  
A consumable management device includes a life determining unit that determines whether a consumable reaching a life end exists in an object apparatus which operates with a plurality of consumables...
7623255 Printing device  
A printing device can transmit authentication data to a client computer remotely connected to the printing device. The authentication data can be used by the client computer to authenticate itself...
7621452 Electronic apparatus  
An electronic apparatus is capable of minimizing the increase in the capacity of a non-volatile memory provided in the wireless tag and of minimizing the increase in the time required for reading...
7620333 System and method for providing messages on a printing component  
A consumable printing component for use in a printing device includes an imaging member and a memory storing message data. In response to a trigger event, a message is formed on the imaging member...
7616907 Printer cartridge  
A printer cartridge comprising a photosensitive body being in contact with a charging roller and a developing roller, the printer cartridge including a first member interposed between the charging...
7616905 Image forming apparatus, cartridge of image forming apparatus, cartridge mounting method  
A cartridge storing a recording agent includes an opening through which the stored recording agent is discharged, and a cover member closing the opening. Further, a non-contact IC tag that stores...
7580144 System and method for detecting potential counterfeiting of print cartridges  
A method for detecting potential counterfeiting of print cartridges includes transmitting a message regarding date information stored on a print cartridge installed in a printing device, the...
7561316 Adjusting ink-usage parameters to reduce ink usage  
One or more ink-usage parameters are adjusted based on ink remaining and historical ink usage, to reduce ink usage for an image to be printed on a sheet of media with ink. The image is printed on...
7516318 Method of controlling an image forming apparatus  
A method of controlling an image forming apparatus having at least one consumption part. The method includes fetching specification information corresponding to the at least one consumption part,...
7515837 System and methods for universal imaging components  
A universal cartridge chip for use with an imaging process cartridge installed in an imaging device is disclosed. The universal cartridge chip includes a memory storing imaging process cartridge...
7509062 Method and apparatus for image forming capable of effectively recycling image forming unit  
An image forming apparatus which allows an independent and easy replacement of replaceable image forming devices including an image forming unit detachably provided in the image forming apparatus....
7504951 Interface antenna  
An interface antenna is positioned between a tag antenna associated with a tag and a reader antenna associated with a reader. The interface antenna receives an electromagnetic carrier signal...
7463860 Image forming apparatus  
An image-forming apparatus includes a body casing having on upper surface thereof a paper ejection tray on which a sheet of paper ejected after formation of an image is stacked; a side cover...
7460795 Image forming apparatus having a detachably mountable image forming unit  
An image forming apparatus for carrying out an image forming process with a detachably mountable image forming unit mounted thereon, when the mounting of the image forming unit has been detected,...
7440705 Image forming apparatus with toner cartridge and the toner cartridge  
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit for forming an image, and a toner cartridge detachably attached to the image forming unit for supplying toner to the image forming unit....
7433610 Image forming apparatus having shielded area in which non-contact wireless communication occurs  
An image forming apparatus has a plurality of detachably loadable replacement units. The replacement units each have an individual IC tag that performs data writing or reading through non-contact...
7430378 Image forming apparatus setting an image forming condition based on characteristics of a cartridge, cartridge used in the image forming apparatus, and storage medium mounted on the cartridge  
An image forming apparatus allows mounting thereon and dismounting therefrom a plurality of types of cartridges, each of the cartridges including a plurality of process members used for image...
7389058 Method of and apparatus for indicating a time to replace consumables in an image forming apparatus  
A method and an apparatus for indicating the time to replace consumables in an image forming apparatus by receiving the current date and the critical time of the consumables from a host and...
7379196 Printing system, printing apparatus, print data transmitting device, and program  
In a printing system, before transmitting print data to a printer, a personal computer transmits a virtual printing start command to the printer. When the data received by the printer is a virtual...
7362466 Image forming apparatus and replaceable part and IC chip for the same  
An image forming apparatus of the present invention includes an apparatus body. An image forming device included in the apparatus is at least partly implemented by a replaceable part. A counter...
7319826 Method of optimizing amount of toner of electrophotographic printer  
A method of optimizing the amount of toner of an electrophotographic printer is provided. The method includes measuring a life span of the development roller in use. The speed of a development...
7292794 System, apparatus, and method for preventing access to information stored in a consumable item of an image forming apparatus  
An image forming apparatus having a recognizing member configured to read a property stored in a memory member of a consumable item via a communication member, and to recognize if the consumable...
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