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Patent No.:

US 12474875 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2025

Filed:

Sep. 20, 2022

Recording apparatus, consumable for recording apparatus, and information processing method

Applicant:

Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;

Inventors:

Tetsunori Mori, Kariya, JP;

Taichiro Kimoto, Nagoya, JP;

Zenichiro Sasaki, Nagoya, JP;

Assignee:

BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya, JP;

Attorney:

Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

Primary Examiner:

Jason S Uhlenhake

Assistant Examiner:

Alexander D Shenderov

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/12 (2006.01); B41J 2/175 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/12 (2013.01); B41J 2/17546 (2013.01);
Abstract

A recording apparatus includes a main body of the recording apparatus, and a consumable which is detachably attached to the main body of the recording apparatus. The consumable has a consumable memory which stores use amount information of a consumable material included in the consumable and recycling history information of the consumable. The main body of the recording apparatus has a communication unit which communicates with the consumable memory, and a processor. The processor acquires the recycling history information from the consumable memory of the consumable mounted on the main body of the recording apparatus by communication via the communication unit, and determines whether or not to perform initialization processing of initializing a value of the use amount information stored in the consumable memory, according to the acquired recycling history information.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Mori, Tetsunori. (2025). Recording apparatus, consumable for recording apparatus, and information processing method (U.S. Patent No. 12474875). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/12474875

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