US 12,105,440 B2
Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and non-transitory recording medium
Yuji Ieiri, Kanagawa (JP); Yuuji Matsuda, Tokyo (JP); Sumihiro Inokuchi, Kanagawa (JP); Hiroshi Okamura, Kanagawa (JP); and Tomohide Kondoh, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Yuji Ieiri, Kanagawa (JP); Yuuji Matsuda, Tokyo (JP); Sumihiro Inokuchi, Kanagawa (JP); Hiroshi Okamura, Kanagawa (JP); and Tomohide Kondoh, Kanagawa (JP)
Filed on Mar. 29, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/192,160.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-107256 (JP), filed on Jul. 1, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0004327 A1, Jan. 4, 2024
Int. Cl. G03G 15/08 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 15/0863 (2013.01) [G03G 15/0862 (2013.01); G03G 15/0865 (2013.01); G03G 15/0889 (2013.01); G03G 15/5016 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
a body;
a toner container that is removably set in the body and contains toner;
a toner supplier that supplies the toner from the toner container to the body;
a memory that stores container information being information of the toner container; and
circuitry configured to:
determine, after the toner container is set in the body, based on the container information acquired from the memory, whether the toner container set in the body is same as a toner container set in the body in a past and the container information satisfies a predetermined condition; and
drive the toner supplier in a case where the toner container set in the body is determined to be same as the toner container set in the body in the past and the container information satisfies the predetermined condition, wherein
the container information includes information indicating a number of times the toner container has been set in the body, and
the predetermined condition includes a condition that the information indicating the number of times is one or more.