Method of servicing a drum maintenance unit (DMU) in an image generating system

US8042930B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Xerox Corporation · US

Inventors

• Edward F. Burress · West Linn, US
• Michael Joel Edwards · Beaverton, US
• Joseph B. Gault · Portland, US
• Michael Gordon · San Jose, US
• Devin Bailly · Portland, US
• Frank Alexander Weissig · Portland, US
• Barry D. Reeves · Lake Oswego, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 28, 2009
• Grant date: Oct 25, 2011
• Expiry date: Sep 24, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B41J2/17596
• WIPO field: Textile and paper machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A method of servicing a customer replaceable unit of an imaging device includes providing a customer replaceable unit configured for insertion and removal from an imaging device. The customer replaceable unit includes at least an applicator configured to apply a release agent to a surface of an intermediate transfer drum of the imaging device, a reservoir including a supply of the release agent for the applicator, a delivery pump configured to pump release agent from the reservoir to the applicator, a recirculation pump configured to pump release agent from the applicator to the reservoir, and a memory including operational data for the customer replaceable unit. A maintenance procedure is then performed on the customer replaceable unit.