- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus with developer information acquisition unit that acquires information relating to deterioration of developer based on an acquired toner charging amount
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Application No.: US16424674Application Date: 2019-05-29
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Publication No.: US10698337B2Publication Date: 2020-06-30
- Inventor: Tamotsu Shimizu , Akifumi Yamaguchi , Yasuhiro Tauchi , Eiji Gyotoku , Yu Sasaki
- Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Applicant Address: JP
- Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Current Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP
- Agent Gerald E. Hespos; Michael J. Porco; Matthew T. Hespos
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@7e1d6f5a
- Main IPC: G03G15/06
- IPC: G03G15/06 ; G03G15/08 ; G03G15/00

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a developer information acquisition unit. The developer information acquisition unit performs a developer deterioration information acquisition operation. In the developer deterioration information acquisition operation, the developer information acquisition unit acquires a tilt of a measurement straight line representing the relationship between the change amount of the frequency in a first measurement toner image forming operation and the density change amount of the measurement toner image based on the change amount of the frequency in the first measurement toner image forming operation and a result of detecting density of the measurement toner image in a density detecting unit, and acquires a toner charging amount based on the acquired tilt of the measurement straight line and the reference information in the storage unit so as to acquire information relating to deterioration of developer based on the acquired toner charging amount.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190369523A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2019-12-05
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