Billing charge calculation method for use in sheet manufacturing apparatus, billing charge calculation apparatus, and billing system
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsToshiaki Yamagami, Seiichi Taniguchi
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Abstract
A billing charge calculation method for use in a sheet manufacturing apparatus that manufactures a sheet using a material including a fiber, includes: acquiring a quantity of output of the manufactured sheets; and calculating a billing charge according to the quantity of the output of the sheets, in which, in the calculating of the billing charge, a charge that includes a quantity-based charge which is obtained by multiplying the quantity of the output of the sheets by a charge per unit quantity is calculated as the billing charge.
Claims9
A billing charge calculation method for use in a sheet manufacturing apparatus that manufactures a sheet using a material including a fiber, the method comprising:
- acquiring a quantity of output of the manufactured sheets;
- and
- calculating a billing charge according to the quantity of the output of the sheets,
- wherein, in the calculating of the billing charge, a charge that includes a quantity-based charge which is obtained by multiplying the quantity of the output of the sheets by a charge per unit quantity is calculated as the billing charge.
A billing charge calculation apparatus for a sheet manufacturing apparatus that manufactures a sheet using a material including a fiber, the apparatus comprising:
- an acquisition unit that acquires a quantity of output of manufactured sheets;
- and
- a calculation unit that calculates a billing charge according to the quantity of the output of the sheets,
- wherein the calculation unit calculates a charge that includes a quantity-based charge which is obtained by multiplying the quantity of the output of the sheets by a charge per unit quantity, as the billing charge.
A billing system for a sheet manufacturing apparatus comprising:
- the sheet manufacturing apparatus that manufactures a sheet using a material including a fiber;
- and
- a host device that is connected to the sheet manufacturing apparatus in such a manner that communication is possible,
- wherein the sheet manufacturing apparatus includes a detection unit that detects information indicating a quantity of manufactured sheets,
- wherein the host device includes
- an acquisition unit that acquires information indicating the quantity of the manufactured sheets from the sheet manufacturing apparatus, and
- a calculation unit that calculates a billing charge according to the quantity of the manufactured sheets, and
- wherein the calculation unit calculates a charge that includes a quantity-based charge which is obtained by multiplying the quantity of the manufactured sheets by a charge per unit quantity, as the billing charge.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.