Toner recovering device

Abstract

Abstract PURPOSE:To enable a user to be exactly warned in an easily understandable manner by detecting a waste toner recovering container and the weight of the recovering container, deciding the presence or absence of the recovering container and the recovered amt. and commanding the display of the warning or the permission or prohibition of a copying operation. CONSTITUTION:This device has the recovering container 2 which recovers the waste toner, a sensor 3 which detects the weight of the recovering container 2 and outputs the signal changing according to the detected weight and a control section 4 which decides the presence or absence of the recovering container 2 as well as the recovered amt. of the toner in accordance with the output signal of the sensor 3 and commands the display of the warning or the permis sion or prohibition of the copying operation. Whether the recovering container is set or not and the recovered amt. of the recovered toner can, therefore, be both detected by one sensor. The device is thereby made into the simple construction and the user is exactly warned in an easily understandable manner.

Inventors

• 👤 Masaru Imaizumi

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