Image forming apparatus and toner supply control program for the same

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 7657194
APP PUB NO 20080080878A1
SERIAL NO

11899475

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A digital color copier includes: a toner concentration storage which stores a detected toner concentration of each developer block of multiple developer blocks across an image forming width; a toner consumption predictor for predicting a first predicted toner consumption of toner consumed from developer of every developer block during a first circulation; a toner concentration estimator for estimating, for every developer block, a toner supply point estimate as the toner concentration at a point where toner is supplied, by subtracting the first predicted toner consumption from the associated detected toner concentration and setting up a toner supply target value of the toner to be supplied from a toner supply device to a developing device in accordance with the predicted toner consumption during a second circulation of the developer inside the developing device that follows the first circulation.

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  • SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Kitagawa, Takashi Nara, JP 58 409
Nagayama, Katsuhiro Nara, JP 41 346
Otsuka, Masayuki Nara, JP 37 200
Tanaka, Tatsuya Nara, JP 106 912

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