Image forming apparatus, method for assisting paper sheet supplying operation and control program of the same

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8002259
APP PUB NO 20100052243A1
SERIAL NO

12551188

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Described is an image forming apparatus, which makes it possible to create a vacant tray. The apparatus includes a paper sheet managing section to conduct consecutive operations including: acquiring the residual amount of the paper sheets accommodated in each of plurality paper sheet trays; calculating a total sum of residual amounts of paper sheets having the same attributes; comparing the above-calculated total sum with the maximum accommodating capacity of each of the paper sheet trays currently accommodating the paper sheets concerned; and notifying the operator of the fact that a vacant tray can be made by collecting the paper sheets concerned into a specific paper sheet tray, if there exists such paper sheets and a combination of paper sheet trays that make the total sum of the residual amounts of the paper sheets equal to or smaller than the maximum accommodating capacity of the specific paper sheet tray.

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KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES INC6-1 MARUNOUCHI 1-CHOME CHIYODA-KU TOKYO 100-0005

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Ichikawa, Yukihiko Hachioji, JP 13 114
Kishimoto, Kazuhisa Mitaka, JP 15 49
Yamanaka, Toshihisa Hachioji, JP 7 29

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