Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Electrophotographic apparatus
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Application No.: US17816024Application Date: 2022-07-29
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Publication No.: US12326689B2Publication Date: 2025-06-10
- Inventor: Kenichi Kaku , Akihiro Maruyama , Shuhei Iwasaki , Tatsuya Yamaai , Kaname Watariguchi , Michiyo Sekiya , Kohei Makisumi , Hideharu Shimozawa
- 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: JP2021-130217 20210806
- Main IPC: G03G5/047
- IPC: G03G5/047 ; G03G5/06 ; G03G5/14 ; G03G15/00

Abstract:
Provided is an electrophotographic apparatus which uses a light emitting diode array as an exposure unit and exposes a photosensitive member to a quantity of light from the LED array whose average light quantity satisfies 0.8×E min or more and 1.1×E min or less on condition that a normalized radius of curvature R of a normalized graph derived from the E-V curve of the photosensitive member has a minimum value of 0.24 or less, and a light quantity at the minimum value of the normalized radius of curvature R is E min [μJ/cm2]. This electrophotographic apparatus prevents both the occurrence of image unevenness due to light quantity variation among the elements of the LED array and the generation of ghost images due to a rest potential.
Public/Granted literature
- US20230059041A1 ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2023-02-23
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