Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus and control program for removing carriers on a photoreceptor
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Application No.: US15868495Application Date: 2018-01-11
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Publication No.: US10481537B2Publication Date: 2019-11-19
- Inventor: Hiroyuki Saito , Tetsuya Ishikawa , Tomohiro Kawasaki , Ryoei Ikari , Tatsuya Furuta , Aiko Kubota
- Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
- Current Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP
- Priority: JP2017-015861 20170131
- Main IPC: G03G15/00
- IPC: G03G15/00 ; G03G21/00

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus that forms an image on a transfer material in an image forming mode, includes: a photoreceptor rotatable in a predetermined rotation direction; a developer that forms a toner image on the photoreceptor using a two-component developing agent including toner and a carrier; a transferor that transfers the toner image on the photoreceptor onto the transfer material; a carrier collector that applies an electric field corresponding to a collecting bias to a carrier adhering to the photoreceptor to collect the carrier; a carrier detector that detects a carrier remaining on the photoreceptor after collecting the carrier by the carrier collector; and a hardware processor that sets the collecting bias in the image forming mode on the basis of the amount of carriers detected by the carrier detector when a carrier adhesion detecting mode for forcibly causing a carrier to adhere to the photoreceptor is executed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180217547A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL PROGRAM Public/Granted day:2018-08-02
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