Image forming apparatus
AssigneeKyocera Mita Corporation
InventorMasanori Okada
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes: a main body; a toner container detachably mounted to the main body; a wireless tag provided on the toner container; and a communicator provided in the main body and being capable of performing a wireless communication with the wireless tag, wherein the communicator includes: a communication strength detector for detecting a communication strength of the wireless communication performed with the wireless tag; and a communication output adjuster for changing the communication output of the communicator so that the communication strength detector detects a predetermined communication strength, when a communication strength detected by the communication strength detector is not the predetermined communication strength.
Claims16
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a main body;
- a toner container detachably mounted to the main body;
- a wireless tag provided on the toner container;
- and
- a communicator provided in the main body and being capable of performing a wireless communication with the wireless tag, wherein
- the communicator includes:
- a communication strength detector for detecting a communication strength of the wireless communication performed with the wireless tag;
- and
- a communication output adjuster for changing the communication output of the communicator so that the communication strength detector detects a predetermined communication strength, when a communication strength detected by the communication strength detector is not the predetermined communication strength.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a main body;
- a communicator provided in the main body and being communicable with a wireless tag provided on a toner container detachably mounted to the main body, wherein
- the communicator includes:
- a communication strength detector for detecting a communication strength of the wireless communication performed with the wireless tag;
- and
- a communication output adjuster for changing the communication output of the communicator so that the communication strength detector detects a predetermined communication strength, when a communication strength detected by the communication strength detector is not the predetermined communication strength.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a main body;
- a toner container detachably mounted to the main body;
- a wireless tag provided on the toner container;
- a communicator provided in the main body and being capable of performing a wireless communication with the wireless tag, wherein
- the communicator includes:
- a toner amount information acquirer for obtaining toner amount information showing an amount of toner particles contained in the toner container;
- a storage section for storing a relationship between the toner amount information and the communication output of the communicator;
- and
- a communication output adjuster for reading out a communication output corresponding to a toner amount information acquired by the toner amount information acquirer and setting the read communication output as the communication output of the communicator.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a main body;
- a communicator provided in the main body and being communicable with a wireless tag provided on a toner container detachably mounted to the main body, wherein
- the communicator includes:
- a toner amount information acquirer for obtaining toner amount information showing an amount of toner particles contained in the toner container;
- a storage section for storing a relationship between the toner amount information and the communication output of the communicator;
- and
- a communication output adjuster for reading out a communication output corresponding to a toner amount information acquired by the toner amount information acquirer and setting the read communication output as the communication output of the communicator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.