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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 1997
Filed:
Jul. 18, 1995
Kenji Yamanouchi, Hino, JP;
Noriyoshi Suzuki, Hino, JP;
Konica Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A photosensitive material processing apparatus includes plural processing tanks each to process a photosensitive material; plural cartridges each to fill solid processing agents for replenishment used in each of the plural processing tanks. The apparatus further includes plural replenishing devices each to replenish the solid processing agent in each of the cartridges into each of the processing tanks; a memory to store information indicating the standard quantity and information of an allowable quantity in surplus or shortage against the standard quantity which is a limited quantity allowing replenishment; a residual quantity detector to give an output signal corresponding to the solid processing agent whose residual quantity reaches zero; and a solid processing agent replenishment controller to control the replenishment of solid processing agents in the cartridges other than a cartridge for which the output signal is given, based on the information of the quantity for overs and shorts against standard stored in the memory.