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Article: Japanese Inventor Develops Device Units Recycling Sorting Technique
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- January 4, 2007
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 4 -- Osamu Ishibashi and Akira Maruyama, both of Nagano-ken, Japan, has developed a sorting technique for recycle of device units.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The sorting apparatus receives the electromagnetic wave from a storage element of a collected toner cartridge, and specifies the recyclability of the toner cartridge based on information extracted from the received electromagnetic wave. The sorting system then sorts out the toner cartridge, in order to send the toner cartridge to a selected one of the sorting areas, based on the results of the specification of recyclability of the toner cartridge, the feed roller, and the development ...