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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2014
Filed:
May. 18, 2012
Taku Aoshima, Kanagawa, JP;
Tadashi Kiyama, Kanagawa, JP;
Toshie Nakamoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroaki Akamatsu, Kanagawa, JP;
Taku Aoshima, Kanagawa, JP;
Tadashi Kiyama, Kanagawa, JP;
Toshie Nakamoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroaki Akamatsu, Kanagawa, JP;
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a body, a developer recovery container, a detecting section, a power supply, a detection object part, a pair of wires, a conducting section, a drive section, and a determining section. The determining section determines the developer recovery container to have been used in a case where the developer is determined to be not present in the detection object part on the basis of information from the detecting section, and in a case where the developer is determined to be present in the detection object part, checks the information from the detecting section again after driving the drive section, and determines the recovery container to have not been used when the developer is determined to be not present in the detection object part and determines the recovery container to have been used when the developer is determined to be present in the detection object part.