Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.

Mita Industrial Co., Ltd.

Tohru Katamoto

Hiroaki Ohashi

Toshinori Nishimura

Mitsuharu Okada

A touch panel apparatus includes a touch panel, a plurality of vibrating devices, and a vibration drive control unit. The touch panel is divided into a plurality of areas. The plurality of vibrating devices are preliminary assigned to the respective plurality of areas. The vibration drive control unit is configured to: drive the vibrating device assigned to an area corresponding to a pressed position while the touch panel is pressed; and drive the vibrating device assigned to another area to cause an area corresponding to the pressed position to vibrate if the vibrating device is not normally driven.

Touch panel apparatus compensating for out-of-order vibrating devices

An image forming apparatus capable of unsealing a toner cartridge automatically and suitably as the toner cartridge is replaced with a new cartridge. The image forming apparatus includes a developing device, and a toner supplying device for supplying toner to the developing device. The toner cartridge is removably mountable on the toner supplying device. Only when the toner cartridge is mounted, and the toner cartridge has not yet been unsealed, is an operation for unsealing the toner cartridge performed.

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Osaka, Japan

Tohru Katamoto