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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:
Jul. 13, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 04, 2008
Applicants:
Hiroyuki Hanano, Osaka, JP;
Toru Yasui, Osaka, JP;
Tetsuji Yamaguchi, Osaka, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Kyocera Mita Corporation, , JP;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Disclosed is an image forming system, which comprises an image forming apparatus, and a toner container mountable to the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus includes a control section, and an information acquisition section which acquires the toner-quality information about a toner container which is demountably mounted thereto. The control section is operable, based on the toner-quality information acquired by the information acquisition section, to identify the quality of the toner contained in the toner container and set a printing function based on the identified toner quality.