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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 1996
Filed:
Jun. 22, 1994
Satoshi Kuroyanagi, Tokyo, JP;
Masanori Miyata, Yokohama, JP;
Hideki Adachi, Kawasaki, JP;
Shinichi Nakamura, Kawasaki, JP;
Naoyuki Ohki, Yokohama, JP;
Tokuharu Kaneko, Yokohama, JP;
Hiroshi Ozaki, Tokyo, JP;
Hisatsugu Tahara, Kawasaki, JP;
Satoshi Kaneko, Kawasaki, JP;
Taisei Fukada, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsuharu Takizawa, Fuchu, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An equipment controlling apparatus is composed of a counter for counting the operational number of the equipment, memories for storing data indicating the state of the equipment, a communication device for communicating on the stored data with a centralized control apparatus, which controls the communicated data intensively, and a controlling device for causing the stored data to be transmitted to the centralized control apparatus when the counter has counted a predetermined value.