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Article: Japanese Inventor Develops Toner Cartridge Life Management Device
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- September 29, 2006
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 29 -- Takehiko Okamura of Nagano, Japan, has developed a device and a method for managing life of toner cartridge, and an image forming apparatus that uses the same.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is managed a life of at least one toner cartridge loaded in an apparatus for forming an image on a recording medium with toner stored in the toner cartridge. A counter counts a remaining amount of each of a plurality of predetermined parameters."
An abstract of the invention, released by the Patent Office, said: "A replacement determinant determines that the toner cartridge should be replaced with another one when the remaining amount of any one of ...