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US 2026/0252284 A1Published application
Technique for calculating energy consumption of image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorAKIRA HANATANI
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus comprises a board, an identification unit, and a computation unit. The identification unit identifies a type of the board. The computation unit acquires, from a storage unit storing a plurality of pieces of power consumption information in correspondence with a plurality of different types of boards, power consumption information corresponding to the type of the board identified by the identification unit, and calculates an energy consumption of the image forming apparatus based on the acquired power consumption information.
Claims18
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a board;
- an identification unit configured to identify a type of the board;
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- a computation unit configured to acquire, from a storage unit storing a plurality of pieces of power consumption information in correspondence with a plurality of different types of boards, power consumption information corresponding to the type of the board identified by the identification unit, and calculate an energy consumption of the image forming apparatus based on the acquired power consumption information.
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