Photocopying – Contact printing – Light boxes
Patent
1993-11-10
1996-07-02
Grimley, Arthur T.
Photocopying
Contact printing
Light boxes
118694, 355245, G03G 2100
Patent
active
055327907
ABSTRACT:
A device for detecting the residual amount of a developer has a developer storing vessel, a light-emitting element for projecting a light for irradiation from the outside to the inside of the vessel, a light-receiving element disposed outside the vessel and adapted to receive the light for irradiation projected by the light-emitting element into the interior of the vessel and issuing a signal in response to the received light, and a control device for discerning between arrival and no arrival of the residual amount of the developer in the vessel at the prescribed level on the basis of the signal from the light-receiving element. The control device discerns the arrival of the residual amount of the developer in the vessel at the predetermined level when the state in which the duration of an excess of the output signal of the light-receiving element over the prescribed threshold level surpasses the first predetermined time interval repeats on a prescribed plurality of instances during the second predetermined time interval.
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Grimley Arthur T.
Lee Shuk Y.
Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
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