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US 8,014,687 B2Granted
Image forming apparatus that determines when a life of a replacement unit has expired
AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
InventorMiho Sasaki
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes: a replaceable constituent element; an information storage unit that holds information indicating a type of the constituent element received by a user interface; and a life calculation controller that, when at least one piece of the information stored in the information storage unit indicates a particular type, performs control to suppress calculation of a life of the constituent element.
Claims16
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a replaceable replacement unit;
- an information storage unit that holds information indicating a type of the replacement unit received by a user interface;
- and
- a life calculation controller that, when at least one piece of the information stored in the information storage unit indicates a particular type, performs control to suppress calculation of a life of the replacement unit.
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An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a replaceable replacement unit;
- an information reception unit that receives information indicating a type of the replacement unit;
- an information storage unit that holds the information received by the information reception unit;
- and
- a life calculation controller that, when at least one piece of the information stored in the information storage unit indicates a particular type, performs control to suppress calculation of a life of the replacement unit.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.