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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:
Aug. 18, 1998
Filed:
Oct. 28, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Yoshihiro Mitekura, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
399 79 ; 399 81 ; 377 13 ;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus which forms an image on a sheet in accordance with an image forming mode selected from among a plurality of image forming modes is provided with a counter to accumulate the number of times image formation has been executed for each of the plurality of image forming modes. The counter includes a memory to store the accumulated number of times image formation has been executed for each of the plurality of image forming modes and a display to display content of the memory.