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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2022
Filed:
Nov. 15, 2021
Applicant:
Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Takayuki Nishi, Fujisawa Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/12 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01); A61L 2/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61L 2/084 (2013.01); G06F 3/1204 (2013.01); G06F 3/1221 (2013.01); G06F 3/1229 (2013.01); G06F 3/1255 (2013.01); H04N 1/0049 (2013.01); H04N 1/00896 (2013.01); A61L 2202/11 (2013.01); A61L 2202/14 (2013.01);
Abstract
According to an embodiment, an image forming apparatus supplies, in a normal mode, electric power to an image forming device, and limits, in a power saving mode, power supplying to the image forming device to be less than that in the normal mode. The image forming apparatus communicates, in the normal mode, with a germicidal lamp apparatus via a communication interface such that the germicidal lamp apparatus generates no germicidal light, and communicates, in the power saving mode, with the germicidal lamp apparatus via the communication interface such that the germicidal lamp apparatus generates germicidal light.