Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Hitoshi Nagahama

Kazuya Koyama

Yasuyuki Ishiguro

Shigeki Hayashi

Masanobu Deguchi

Tadashi Nakamura

Satoshi Ogawa

Hisashi Kunihiro

Toshihisa Ishida

Takahiro Bito

Yasuharu Morinishi

Katsuaki Sumida

Toshihiko Murakami

Shintaro Fukuoka

Takeaki Ohuchi

Junichi Saito

Hideyuki Nishimura

Kohji Shinkawa

Tatsuo Imafuku

Yoshinori Urata

Takeshi Murata

Toshiaki Fujisawa

Keiko Yutani

Tatuo Imafuku

Takahiro Bitoh

Hiroshi Ishii

Takeshi Kato

Yoshiaki Akazawa

Takafumi Nagai

Kazuyuki Hamada

Toshio Nishino

Shigeyuki Wakada

Satoshi Machino

Takeshi Satoh

Toru Nishikawa

Eiji Tenjiku

Keizo Kitamura

Kazuki Takatsuka

Tenjiku Eiji

Ohkawa Takeshi

A toner cartridge supporting apparatus includes a storage portion, an insertion port, an opening/closing cover, a detecting portion for detecting a toner remaining amount, a control portion for controlling toner supply, a judging portion to judge whether or not a toner in a toner cartridge is exhausted, a message generating portion for generating a replacement message, a display portion for displaying the message, a toner cartridge replacement icon, and a toner cartridge moving portion, wherein a toner cartridge replacement message display function and a toner cartridge movement instruction function are provided as the control portion.

Toner cartridge supporting apparatus, image forming apparatus using the same, and toner cartridge supporting method

The image forming apparatus of the present invention includes an operation accepting means for accepting an instruction, and a display controlling means for controlling a display section. The display controlling means controls the display section to display at least environmental information, which has been obtained by the image forming apparatus, at predetermined timing at which no instruction corresponding to a job is accepted by the operation accepting means.

Image forming apparatus having display section displaying environmental certification information during startup and being foldable into a generally flush accommodated state

A toner cartridge supporting apparatus includes a storage portion, an insertion port, an opening/closing cover, a detecting portion for detecting a toner remaining amount, a control portion for controlling the supply of toner, a judging portion to judge whether or not the toner in a toner cartridge is exhausted, a message generating portion for generating a replacement message, a display portion for displaying the message and a toner cartridge replacement icon, and a toner cartridge moving portion. A toner cartridge replacement message is displayed when toner in a toner cartridge has been exhausted. A toner cartridge movement instruction function is performed in response to a user instruction to replace a toner cartridge.

An image forming apparatus to which a plurality of process cartridges has a safety switch for detecting opening and closing of a front cover, stroke switches for detecting positions of the process cartridges, a display portion and a speaker for notifying a state of the process cartridge, and a control portion. The control portion has a cartridge information notifying function for, when closing of the front cover is detected by the safety switch and the process cartridge is not detected by the stroke switch, notifying information of the process cartridge. Further, the control portion has a cartridge information notifying function for notifying first notification information for replacing the process cartridge, a cartridge moving function for moving the process cartridge by a moving portion, and a cartridge information notification cancelling function for cancelling notification of the first notification information.

Image forming apparatus including cartridge position detector

When a device desired to acquire emission right information is selected on a selection screen displayed on a display unit and a 'SEND' icon is manipulated, a control unit causes the display unit to display consumables information of consumables granted with emission rights and consumables not granted with emission rights that is received from a server. When a user selects a consumable item that is desired to be ordered from among consumables indicated by the consumables information displayed on the display unit, and manipulates a 'SEND ORDER SHEET' icon on the ordering screen, the control unit sends an order sheet to the server. The control unit causes the display unit to display, in the case of receiving order sheet receipt notification from the server in response to the sent order sheet, the received order sheet receipt notification.

Image forming apparatus, consumables ordering system and consumables ordering method

A charging roller has a conductive shaft, a charge emission member provided to the shaft, and a gap securing member provided to the shaft. The gap securing member (i) protrudes toward the photoreceptor drum so as to be closer to the photoreceptor drum than the charge emission member is to the photoreceptor drum and (ii) is in contact with the photoreceptor drum so as to secure a gap between the charge emission member and the photoreceptor drum. A conductive part of the gap securing member and the shaft are bonded to each other by electrically releasing adhesive, so that the gap securing member is provided to the shaft.

Charging roller and image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus including an operation panel has, as a configuration of the operation panel, a display portion including a function to display environmental label information of the image forming apparatus. The environmental label information includes information on a type of greenhouse effect gases (CO) and a total emission amount of the greenhouse effect gases in a life cycle of the image forming apparatus. On the display portion, there is provided a selective display portion for displaying an environmental label as list display or thumbnail display, as well as selectively displaying detailed information of the environmental label according to the environmental label.

Image forming apparatus including display device

The image forming apparatus of the present invention includes an image forming main device which has a control section. The control section (a) obtains, from an external device via a communication device, option information indicative of an at least one optional device and eco-information indicative of an amount of greenhouse-gas emitted due to the at least one optional device, (b) controls a display device to display the option information and the eco-information, and (c) sends, to the external device via the communication device, an order for an optional device selected by a user via the input device out of the at least one optional device indicated by the option information displayed on the display device.

Image forming apparatus, system for ordering optional device, and method for ordering optional device

An image forming apparatus of the present invention is an image forming apparatus into which a memory device is insertable and which performs a printing process on an image of image data stored in the memory device. The image forming apparatus includes a memory reading section for detecting insertion of the memory device into the image forming apparatus, and a display processing section for performing a notification process of warning of accidental ingestion of the memory device, when the memory reading section detects the insertion of the memory device. This makes it more surely possible to cause a user to give attention to accidental ingestion by young children.

Image forming apparatus, image forming system, storage medium, and control method including recommendation information writing

In an evacuation route obtaining system according to the present invention, a mobile terminal apparatus and a plurality of display apparatuses are connected to each other via a wireless network. The plurality of display apparatuses are connected to corresponding storage apparatuses respectively. The mobile terminal apparatus includes: an arithmetic section for calculating a positional relationship between the mobile terminal apparatus and each of the plurality of display apparatuses; a destination selecting section for selecting a particular display apparatus from among the plurality of display apparatuses based on a result of the calculation carried out by the arithmetic section; a communication section for sending request data to the particular display apparatus selected by the destination selecting section, and receiving evacuation route information that has been read out of the storage apparatus corresponding to the particular display apparatus and customized in accordance with an installation site of the particular display apparatus; and a display section for displaying the evacuation route information received by the communication section. This realizes a system which (i) provides a user with easy operation procedures, (ii) provides the user with an evacuation route suitable for a real-time situation, and (iii) evacuates the user safely and successfully while making the user feel secure.

Evacuation route obtaining system, mobile terminal apparatus, evacuation directive apparatus, evacuation route obtaining method, evacuation route sending method, computer-readable storage medium, and electronic conference system

The toner transporting section is provided with a plurality of toner discharge portions, selectively discharges a waste toner from any one of the plurality of toner discharge portions, and stores the waste toner in a waste toner container to which the waste toner discharged from the selected toner discharge portion is to be stored. Accordingly, it is possible to exchange the waste toner container corresponding to the toner discharge portion not used for discharging the waste toner. Therefore, it is possible to exchange the waste toner containers without stopping an image forming operation in an image forming apparatus provided with a cleaning device.

Developer recovering device and image forming apparatus having the same

There is provided a color image forming apparatus which is capable of preventing fogging, and decrease of a transfer efficiency of a toner image onto a recording medium when forming a color image, and stably forming a high-definition color image excellent in a color reproducibility. In a color image forming apparatus including a toner image forming section, a transfer section, a fixing section, a recording medium feeding section, and a discharging section, respective color toners which are used in the toner image forming sections are adapted to have different time constants &#x3c4; from each other.

Color image forming method and color image forming apparatus

In a full-color image forming apparatus including a light source for monochrome image formation that outputs light corresponding to monochrome image information and exposes a monochrome image forming photoreceptor and light sources for color image formation that output lights corresponding to color image information and expose photoreceptors for forming images of colors other than black, when the light source for monochrome image formation and the light sources for color image formation are caused to output the lights and a full-color image is formed, an optical output of the light source for monochrome image formation is set to become equal to or less than optical outputs of the light sources for color image formation, preferably, become less than the optical outputs of the light sources for color image formation.

Full-color image forming apparatus having variable power light source

An object of the invention is to provide a developer container in which a container main body is protected against damage by an external torsional and bending force and an impact as much as possible, developer in the vicinity of conveying means is prevented from aggregating as much as possible, and developer in the vicinity of a discharge hole is prevented from aggregating as much as possible. The developer container includes a cylindrical container main body () for containing developer for use in image formation, and is detachably mounted on an image forming apparatus, the container main body () being rotated about an axis thereof by drive means provided in the image forming apparatus to supply developer to the image forming apparatus, wherein conveying means for conveying the developer in an axial direction when the container main body is rotated about the axis is provided in an inner circumferential portion of the container main body (), and the conveying means has a plurality of first and second protrusions () extending in first and second extending directions and arranged at intervals in a circumferential direction and the axial direction.

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Uji, Japan

Hitoshi Nagahama