Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus that adjusts a voltage output based on toner adhesion
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Application No.: US14924826Application Date: 2015-10-28
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Publication No.: US09857747B2Publication Date: 2018-01-02
- Inventor: Satoshi Kaneko , Shuji Hirai
- Applicant: Satoshi Kaneko , Shuji Hirai
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2014-221465 20141030
- Main IPC: G03G15/00
- IPC: G03G15/00 ; G03G15/06 ; G03G15/16

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus that includes an imaging device, a transferrer, a rotator, a rotation position sensor, an adhesion amount sensor, a power supply, and a controller. The controller executes a construction process to construct output pattern data to change a voltage output from the power supply, according to a result obtained by detecting a toner adhesion amount of a toner image for density unevenness detection and a detection result from the rotation position sensor obtained when the toner image is formed, and an output change process to execute a predetermined process while changing the voltage according to the detection result and the output pattern data. The controller executes a determination process to determine propriety of an output range of the voltage output from the power supply by the output change process and a data process for a shift to shift the range when a determination result is inappropriate.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160124367A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2016-05-05
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