Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus with developing roller separation processing
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Application No.: US17171024Application Date: 2021-02-09
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Publication No.: US11378895B2Publication Date: 2022-07-05
- Inventor: Toshiyuki Sano , Yusuke Ikegami , Junya Sumida , Chieko Mimura , Shintaro Sakaguchi
- Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Nagoya
- Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Nagoya
- Agency: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, PC
- Priority: JPJP2020-051543 20200323
- Main IPC: G03G15/01
- IPC: G03G15/01 ; G03G15/23 ; G03G15/00

Abstract:
A controller is configured to: when an inter-sheet time is shorter than or equal to a first time, maintain a developing roller in contact with a photosensitive drum during an inter-sheet time; when the inter-sheet time is longer than the first time and shorter than or equal to a second time longer than the first time, perform, during the inter-sheet time, at least part of temporary separation processing of temporarily separating the developing roller from the photosensitive drum in a state where the photosensitive drum is rotating; and when the inter-sheet time is longer than the second time, perform, during the inter-sheet time, at least part of temporary stop processing of separating the developing roller from the photosensitive drum and then stopping rotation of the photosensitive drum, and subsequently restarting rotation thereof and then bringing the developing roller into contact with the photosensitive drum.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210294253A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2021-09-23
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