Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus with adjustment of toner content in developer
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Application No.: US15643846Application Date: 2017-07-07
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Publication No.: US10394176B2Publication Date: 2019-08-27
- Inventor: Atsushi Matsumoto
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Venable LLP
- Priority: JP2016-138909 20160713
- Main IPC: G03G15/00
- IPC: G03G15/00

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a developing device, a toner content detecting portion, a toner supplying device, an image ratio calculating portion, a toner image density detecting portion, an adjusting portion, and a controller. The controller is configured to control an execution frequency of the adjusting portion so that execution by the adjusting portion is carried out after a number of times of image formation after occurrence of a change rate of the image ratio that is greater than a predetermined change rate reaches a first value, and execution by the adjusting portion is carried out after the number of times of image formation after occurrence of a change rate of the image ratio that is less than the predetermined change rate reaches a second value greater than the first value.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180017924A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2018-01-18
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