Image forming apparatus with toner refilling unit

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PATENT NO 9658569
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12974068

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The present invention prevents a toner bottle from being erroneously determined to be empty and allows toner to be reliably refilled into a hopper and thus a developing unit in an image forming apparatus including the developing unit configured to develop an electrostatic latent image formed on an image carrier, using toner.

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CANON FINETECH INCSAITAMA PREFECTURE JAPAN SAITAMA

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Kayahara, Yasufumi Tokyo, JP 7 24

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