Incremental printing of symbolic information – Ink jet – Controller
Reexamination Certificate
2006-09-07
2008-12-23
Luu, Matthew (Department: 2861)
Incremental printing of symbolic information
Ink jet
Controller
C347S085000, C347S022000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07467841
ABSTRACT:
A maintenance scheduling system for creating a maintenance schedule for an image forming apparatus includes an actual use acquiring unit configured to acquire actual use information of the image forming apparatus and actual use information of a consumable part, a failure probability distribution estimating unit configured to estimate failure probability distribution of the consumable part on the basis of history of actual use information of the consumable part, a counter proceeding degree acquiring unit configured to acquire a counter proceeding degree, which is a counter value per day, on the basis of history of actual use information of the image forming apparatus, and a maintenance scheduling unit configured to present next replacement timing and a consumable part to be replaced, on the basis of the failure probability distribution of each of the consumable parts and the counter proceeding degree.
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Kamisuwa Yoshikatsu
Nakane Rintaro
Goldberg Brian J
Gunther John E.
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
Luu Matthew
Sereboff Steven C.
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