G03G 15/553
Monitoring or warning means for exhaustion or lifetime end of consumables
Official title: {Monitoring or warning means for exhaustion or lifetime end of consumables, e.g. indication of insufficient copy sheet quantity for a job}
G03G15/553 (Monitoring or warning means for exhaustion or lifetime end of consumables) appears on 1,845 US grants and 1,970 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Image forming apparatus that can predict a life of the fixing roller6 Oct 2026US 12,754,505 B2KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Image forming apparatus having locking device with failure detection15 Sep 2026US 12,736,911 B2Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Apparatus that obtains condition information of part of printing apparatus, method, system, and storage medium8 Sep 2026US 12,730,403 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Recording material estimation method, information processing apparatus, and consumable8 Sep 2026US 12,730,404 B2Zhuhai Pantum Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Image forming apparatus1 Sep 2026US 12,724,360 B2Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Image forming apparatus1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299485 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Substrate unit and image forming apparatus24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288034 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Replenishment management system including image forming apparatus and server apparatus24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288041 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Image forming apparatus24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288042 A1
- Image forming apparatus configured to perform initialization process for first consumable and second consumable attached to main casing in accordance with received instruction24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288058 A1Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
Most cited
By later US patents
- Monitor/warranty system for electrostatographic reproducing machines using replaceable cartridges419US 4,961,088 AXerox Corporation · 1990
- Replaceable part with integral memory for usage, calibration and other data311US 5,835,817 AHewlett-Packard Company · 1998
- Method of calibrating a spatial light modulator printing system280US 5,842,088 ATexas Instruments Incorporated · 1998
- Replaceable part with integral memory for usage, calibration and other data276US 5,699,091 AHewlett-Packard Company · 1997
- Centralized control system for terminal device203US 5,282,127 ASanyo Electric Co., Ltd. · 1994