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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2023
Yuji Ieiri, Kanagawa, JP;
Yuuji Matsuda, Tokyo, JP;
Sumihiro Inokuchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroshi Okamura, Kanagawa, JP;
Tomohide Kondoh, Kanagawa, JP;
Yuji Ieiri, Kanagawa, JP;
Yuuji Matsuda, Tokyo, JP;
Sumihiro Inokuchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroshi Okamura, Kanagawa, JP;
Tomohide Kondoh, Kanagawa, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a body, a toner container that is removably set in the body and contains toner, a toner supplier to supply the toner from the toner container to the body, a memory that stores container information that is information of the toner container, and circuitry. The circuitry is to determine, after the toner container is set in the body, based on the container information acquired from the memory, whether the toner container set in the body is same as a toner container set in the body in a past and the container information satisfies a predetermined condition, and to drive the toner supplier in a case where the toner container set in the body is determined to be same as the toner container set in the body in the past and the container information satisfies the predetermined condition.