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US 2003/0198480 A1Published application
Equipment unit for image forming device and image forming device comprising the same
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKohji Shinkawa, Hideyuki Nishimura, Takafumi Nagai, Takeshi Murata, Keiko Yutani, Hitoshi Nagahama
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Abstract
An equipment unit such as a toner cartridge detachably equipped to an image forming device has a product information related to the equipment unit recorded on the outer surface thereof using an organic pigment having infrared reflectiveness that cannot be observed normally with the naked eye.
Claims16
An equipment unit to be attached to an image forming device for forming an image, wherein
- the equipment unit bears information recorded thereto using an organic pigment having infrared reflectiveness.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.