US 11,989,467 B2
Image recording device
Shinya Esaki, Nagoya (JP); Yushi Deura, Nagoya (JP); Haruka Azechi, Nagoya (JP); Tetsuya Okuno, Nagoya (JP); and Shunsuke Minamikawa, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya (JP)
Filed by BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed on Dec. 28, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/563,747.
Application 17/563,747 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2020/023175, filed on Jun. 12, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-120836 (JP), filed on Jun. 28, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0121404 A1, Apr. 21, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 3/12 (2006.01); B41J 2/175 (2006.01); G06K 15/10 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/1229 (2013.01) [B41J 2/17546 (2013.01); G06F 3/1204 (2013.01); G06F 3/1253 (2013.01); G06F 3/1286 (2013.01); G06F 3/1288 (2013.01); G06K 15/102 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image recording device, comprising:
a mounting part to which a cartridge is mounted;
a printing head configured to perform printing on a sheet;
a cartridge interface;
an information interface;
a memory; and
a controller,
wherein the memory is configured to store correspondence information associating a plurality of types of status information, output determination information and request type information with each other,
wherein the status information is related to at least one of information on the cartridge mounted in the mounting part and information corresponding to operation of the printing head, the status information being stored in the memory by the controller,
wherein the output determination information corresponds to usage type information obtained from a cartridge memory through the cartridge interface, the cartridge memory being provided to the cartridge mounted in the mounting part,
wherein the request type information indicates a type of a transmitting source requesting the status information, and
wherein the controller is configured to perform:
receiving an output request that requests output of the status information;
determining a type of the request type information based on the transmitting source of the output request; and
identifying the status information of which type is associated with the determined request type information and the output determination information corresponding to the obtained usage type information, the status information being identified based on the correspondence information from among a plurality of the status information types stored in the memory.