Toner filling device and toner production management system
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsHirosato Amano, Tetsuo Noji, Hidenori Minowa
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
There is provided a toner container filling device and a toner production management system. The toner container filling device is installed at a toner container filling base and is able to fill a toner container with toner automatically, and obtain information about the toner container filling process while filling the toner container with toner. The toner production management system receives the information from the toner container filling device, and determines the amount of toner to be produced at a toner production base and time of delivering toner to the toner container filling base according to the received information.
Claims6
A toner container filling device for filling a toner container with toner, the toner container filling device comprising:
- a toner storage section configured to store the toner,
- a toner container filling section configured to take the toner in from the toner storage section and pump the toner to the toner container;
- a measurement unit configured to measure the weight of the toner container and output weight data of the toner container;
- and
- a control section configured to calculate the weight of the toner pumped into the toner container using the weight data of the toner container output from the measurement unit, and control the toner container filling section to start pumping toner into the toner container, and stop the toner container filling section from pumping toner into the toner container.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.