Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image stabilizing apparatus and image forming apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 图像稳定装置和图像形成装置
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Application No.: US12254269Application Date: 2008-10-20
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Publication No.: US08233811B2Publication Date: 2012-07-31
- Inventor: Motoyuki Itoyama , Syouichi Fujita , Mitsuhiro Murata , Toshiaki Fujisawa , Masaya Fujitani
- Applicant: Motoyuki Itoyama , Syouichi Fujita , Mitsuhiro Murata , Toshiaki Fujisawa , Masaya Fujitani
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.
- Priority: JP2007-276390 20071024
- Main IPC: G03G15/08
- IPC: G03G15/08

Abstract:
There is provided an image stabilizing apparatus which is capable of keeping a toner concentration and a printing density constant when toner consumption is small, and further which is systematically simple. The image stabilizing apparatus comprises a control portion for controlling a toner replenishment amount in a toner replenishing apparatus depending on a toner concentration detected by a toner concentration sensor and a print coverage of a document detected by a print coverage detecting portion, and controlling, when the print coverage of the document detected by the print coverage detecting portion is less than a predetermined value and such documents continue, so as to discharge a predetermined amount of toner to the image bearing member by developing forcibly, and then replenish the same amount of toner as the predetermined amount by the toner replenishing apparatus.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090110414A1 IMAGE STABILIZING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2009-04-30
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