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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2015
Applicant:
Lexmark International, Inc., Lexington, KY (US);
Inventors:
Jeffrey Abler, Georgetown, KY (US);
Charles Alan Bast, Winchester, KY (US);
Michael Craig Leemhuis, Nicholasville, KY (US);
Assignee:
Lexmark International, Inc., Lexington, KY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/0863 (2013.01); G03G 15/0865 (2013.01);
Abstract
A replaceable unit for an electrophotographic image forming device according to one embodiment includes a body having a toner reservoir containing toner and a non-volatile memory device containing a table having a plurality of toner feed rates, each toner feed rate corresponds to the number of 1/1652 of a rotation a drive element turns to move one gram of toner out the outlet port at a predetermined amount of toner in the reservoir.