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US 2026/0252009 A1Published application
Image forming apparatus capable of suppressing increase of number of ports of control portion and suppressing increase of number of types of substrates
AssigneeKYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
InventorsShunsuke Sasaki, Minoru Shinba
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of units, a control portion and a switching portion. The plurality of units share in executing part or all of an image forming process. The control portion accesses a non-volatile storage portion provided in each of the units. The switching portion switches a connection target connected to the control portion via one communication line between the plurality of storage portions corresponding to the plurality of units.
Claims4
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a plurality of units configured to share in executing a part or all of an image forming process;
- a control portion configured to access a non-volatile storage portion provided in each of the units;
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- a switching portion configured to switch a connection target connected to the control portion via one communication line between a plurality of the storage portions corresponding to the plurality of the units.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.