Inkjet & Digital Printing

Fuji Xerox Launches the Energy Storage System for Multifunction Devices to Supply Power During the Power Stoppage

Thursday 30. May 2013 - To Continue Business Activities at Disasters and Emergencies

To support business activities even during the power stoppage, Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. will launch the energy storage system with a built-in lithium-ion battery for digital multifunction devices—PS-02-FIM2200—developed by Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. (hereafter Toppan) on June 24.
Incorporating high-capacity batteries that can supply power and be charged at the same time, the energy storage system is connected to Fuji Xerox’s digital multifunction device (refer to the photos and configuration below) and enables users to continuously operate it even at power stoppage, by automatically switching the source of power distribution to the system from a power outlet.
Moreover, the system is equipped with a disaster detection function that automatically shuts down the power when detecting an earthquake or submergence, thereby preventing accidents such as earth leakage. The system also serves as a source of power supply for other electric devices to support continuance of business activities at disasters and emergencies.
Fuji Xerox and its affiliate in charge of development, Fuji Xerox Advanced Technology Co., Ltd., conducted the product planning while Toppan took charge of the development by leveraging the technologies and know-how that the three companies had been tackling to turn the system into practical use.
Features of the energy storage system with a built-in lithium-ion battery for digital multifunction devices include
Powerful output
Equipped with two systems of high-capacity batteries. While one system supplies power, the other charges.
Smart control function
Users can set up scheduled operation of a multifunction device with a PC and exclusive software by avoiding using it during the electricity peak or shifting the operation to the low demand time such as night and holidays (peak shift/peak cut). Moreover, the system is equipped with a function that can visualize the remaining amount of power storage as well as power consumption.
High safety
Equipped with ElectAge System (Toppan is applying for a trademark registration.), the system offers high safety including exclusive software that constantly monitors and manages the system status, a double-packaged case that provides ballistic protection of the internal mechanism, and safety device, which automatically shuts down in case of submergence or earthquake.
There are growing concerns over the supply of electricity and preparations for emergency situations with the implementation of policies such as planned outage or peak shift/peak cut, which have been introduced after the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011.
The system was developed to be used at major disasters when emergency generators with a limited electric-generating capacity cannot meet the demands at places such as public offices conducting supportive activities, universities and educational institutions functioning as evacuation sites for a large group of people, or companies and hospitals in continuing their business activities.
The subject system is being applied for approval as a target device for subsidies by Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan (subsidies of budget allocations for projects to promote implementation of stationary lithium-ion storage battery, executive body: Sustainable open Innovation Initiative).