Equipment management system that issues a warning when the lifetime of a component has been exceeded and disables the warning when such a warning is to be generated for a different component

Number of patents in Portfolio can not be more than 2000

United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 5873009
SERIAL NO

08739043

Stats

ATTORNEY / AGENT: (SPONSORED)

Importance

Loading Importance Indicators... loading....

Abstract

See full text

In a system in which a host computer performs lifetime management for components of a plurality of copiers, components whose lifetimes are to be managed can be freely selected copier by copier and, as a result, warning reports can be transmitted with a reduced number of communication sessions. The copiers are each equipped with a device for management, so that counting can be performed for their individual components and interlock counts for such counting can be freely specified. The host computer compares a count received through communication with a threshold value to issue a report within the host computer. Within one copier, during a period after a component PM call is issued and before a component is replaced, even if another component becomes a target of a component PM call, the component PM call is not issued. When a component replacement report is received, a report of a component PM call is automatically deleted from an urgency report list. A component whose component PM call has been exceeded is indicated with a mark requesting replacement.

Loading the Abstract Image... loading....

First Claim

See full text

Family

Loading Family data... loading....

Patent Owner(s)

Patent OwnerAddress
MITA INDUSTRIAL CO LTDOSAKA-SHI OSAKA-FU 540

International Classification(s)

  • [Classification Symbol]
  • [Patents Count]

Inventor(s)

Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Hashimoto, Yasuhiro Osaka, JP 146 1992
Nagira, Jiro Osaka, JP 13 279
Utatsu, Hiroshige Osaka, JP 5 178
Yamashita, Yuji Osaka, JP 79 892

Cited Art Landscape

Load Citation

Patent Citation Ranking

Forward Cite Landscape

Load Citation