Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation

Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.

Kyocera Mita Corporation

Tomohiro Takahashi

Tomoyuki Omura

Munetomo Matsuda

Tetsuo Hayama

Kouji Hayashi

Tadashi Miyazawa

Atsuya Ikeuchi

An edaravone suspension for human oral administration includes edaravone particles, a dispersant, and water.

Edaravone suspension for oral administration

A readout controlling device includes a start time recording portion, a transmission controlling portion, an error determining portion, and a time changing portion. A start time of when a piece of information is read out from a storage device connected to the readout controlling device is recorded in the start time recording portion. The transmission controlling portion transmits a readout request to read out the piece of information, toward the storage device based on the start time. The error determining portion receives the piece of information readout from the storage device, and determines whether or not an error has occurred in the piece of information. If the error has been determined to have occurred, the time changing portion can change the start time recorded in the start time recording portion.

Readout controlling device and image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes a mounting unit, a restricting member, a driving source, a reading unit, a storage unit, and a control unit. The reading unit reads mounting-destination information from a storage medium. The mounting-destination information is information stored in the storage medium located in the container and information assigned to the image forming apparatus used by an ordering source user who has ordered the container. The own-apparatus information is information assigned to its own apparatus. The control unit that determines whether the mounting-destination information read from the storage medium of the container mounted to the mounting unit by the reading unit matches the own-apparatus information or not when the container is mounted to the mounting unit, and the control unit controlling driving of the driving source to move the restricting member to a restriction position when the mounting-destination information matches the own-apparatus information.

Image forming apparatus that restricts removal of container with remaining toner by third person

An image forming apparatus includes a replenishment empty history recording portion, a post-empty attachment detecting portion, and an image creation restricting portion. The replenishment empty history recording portion records replenishment empty history information to a storage device in correspondence with one of the plurality of developer containers in which a replenishment empty state was detected in a first attachment portion. The post-empty attachment detecting portion detects whether or not a second attachment portion is in a post-empty container attached state where the developer container corresponding to the replenishment empty history information recorded in the storage device is attached to the second attachment portion. The image creation restricting portion, upon detection of the replenishment empty state, restricts an operation of an image creating device, and upon detection that the second attachment portion is in the post-empty container attached state, releases a restriction on the operation of the image creating device.

Image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes a toner container information storage section, a toner container information acquisition section, a toner container information readout section, a number-of-refills comparing section, a genuine product determining section, and a toner container information update section. The toner container information acquisition section is configured to acquire an identification code and a number of refills from a toner container. The number-of-refills comparing section is configured to read out, based on the acquired identification code, the number of refills of the corresponding toner container from the toner container information storage section and determine whether or not the number of refills acquired from the toner container is smaller than the read number of refills. If the number of refills acquired from the toner container is smaller than the read number of refills, the genuine product determining section determines that the toner container is a non-genuine product.

Image forming apparatus and genuine product determination method

An image forming apparatus according to the present invention includes: a paper feed part; a conveying path conveying paper from the paper feed part; a transfer part transferring an image onto the paper; a registration roller timely delivering the paper to the transfer part; a paper detector detecting paper arrival at the registration roller; an image forming part starting image formation; an image processing part transmitting to the image forming part image data used for the image formation; and a control part, based on output of the paper detector, in a case where the paper detector has not detected the paper arrival at a check time point provided before a tip of the image arrives at the transfer part after the start of the image formation, delaying an image formation speed at the image forming part and an image data transmission speed of the image processing part.

Image forming apparatus and image forming apparatus control method

In an image forming apparatus, in each of a cyan image forming unit, a magenta image forming unit, a yellow image forming unit, and a black image forming unit, during a non-development period during which no toner is discharged out of a development unit, when toner in the development unit is agitated with an agitation roller, every time the drive time of a development motor for driving the agitation roller is counted, the drive time is stored on an accumulative basis in an EEPROM; with respect to the developer unit of which the drive time has become equal to or longer than a predetermined period, a predetermined amount of toner is supplied thereto and the predetermined amount of toner is discharged therefrom, and thereafter the stored drive time is reset.

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Osaka, Japan

Tomohiro Takahashi