Image forming apparatus that outputs energy consumption information
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHIROKI ITO
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus comprising, an internal load provided inside the image forming apparatus, a connection unit to which an external load is connectable, a power supply configured to supply power to the internal load and the external load, and a computation unit configured to calculate a power consumption value of the internal load, and acquire a device-specific power consumption value of the external load connected to the connection unit and perform computation including addition of the power consumption value of the internal load and the device-specific power consumption value of the external load.
Claims23
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an internal load provided inside the image forming apparatus;
- a connection unit to which an external load is connectable;
- a power supply configured to supply power to the internal load and the external load;
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- a computation unit configured to calculate a power consumption value of the internal load, acquire a device-specific power consumption value of the external load connected to the connection unit and perform computation including addition of the power consumption value of the internal load and the device-specific power consumption value of the external load.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.