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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 1993
Filed:
Dec. 13, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
355208 ; 355203 ; 355204 ;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus which includes a replaceable element which is replaced in predetermined amount of use and predicting apparatus for predicting the time when the predetermined amount of use of the element is to be reached. The predicting apparatus predicts the time based on amount of use of the element per unit time and remaining amount of use of the element.