US 6,981,530 B2
Toner filling device and toner production management system
Hirosato Amano, Shizuoka (Japan); Tetsuo Noji, Shizuoka (Japan); and Hidenori Minowa, Shizuoka (Japan)
Assigned to Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Feb. 23, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/63,831.
Application 11/063831 is a division of application No. 10/608366, filed on Jun. 30, 2003, granted, now 6,874,546.
Claims priority of application No. 2002-197223 (JP), filed on Jul. 05, 2002; and application No. 2003-145409 (JP), filed on May 22, 2003.
Prior Publication US 2005/0139284 A1, Jun. 30, 2005
Int. Cl. B65B 1/30 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 141—83 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A toner production management system for managing production of toner at a toner production base and delivery of the toner from the toner production base to a toner container filling base where the toner is pumped into a toner container, the toner production management system comprising:
a toner container filling device provided at the toner container filling base for filling the toner container with the toner delivered from the toner production base; the toner container filling device, while pumping toner into the toner container, measuring toner container filling data and transmitting the toner container filling data; and
a server configured to receive the toner container filling data and determine the amount of toner production at the toner production base and the time of toner delivery from the toner production base to the toner container filling base based on the toner container filling data.