Abstract:
A laser scanning device includes a rotary polygon mirror, a drive motor, a light detecting portion, a measurement processing portion, and an identification processing portion. The rotary polygon mirror has reflection surfaces and rotates such that light is scanned by the reflection surfaces in sequence. The light detecting portion detects the light scanned by the rotary polygon mirror. The measurement processing portion, in each of light detection cycles, measures an interval between a light detection timing and an output timing at which a drive signal that is to be input to a drive motor first after the detection timing, is output. The identification processing portion identifies a reflection surface corresponding to a standard interval, based on the standard interval and the measured interval, the standard interval being one of intervals acquired in the detection cycles that correspond to the reflection surfaces.
Abstract:
A static eliminating device includes: a housing; a substrate mounted to the housing; a light-emitting part mounted on a mounting surface of the substrate; a partition member connected to the housing to cover the substrate and the light-emitting part and face a portion of the housing to which the substrate and the light-emitting part are mounted so that an opening facing the surface of the image carrier is formed in a light-emitting region across which light is delivered from the light-emitting part to the surface of the image carrier; and a restricting protrusion abutting at a distal end thereof against the partition member to support the partition member and restricting the position of the partition member to ensure the formation of the opening. A distal side portion of the restricting protrusion located within the light-emitting region has a tapered shape narrowing with approach toward the partition member.
Abstract:
The light emitting portions 140 are mounted on the substrate 120, and emit neutralization light. The first end engagement portion 115 is engaged with the first end portion 121 of the substrate 120 opposite to the image carrier 2. The partitioning member 130 is connected to the housing 110, so as to form an opened portion that is opened to face the surface of the image carrier 2. The plurality of restriction protrusions 150 are arranged along an axial direction of the image carrier 2. The first end engagement portion 115 is disposed in the central portion of the plurality of restriction protrusions 150 in the arrangement direction. The arrangement direction of the plurality of restriction protrusions 150 curves, such that a central portion of the restriction protrusions in the axial direction is closer to the image carrier than end portions of the restriction protrusions in the axial direction.
Abstract:
A drum cleaning device includes a toner supply roller, a toner layer restricting member, and a toner receiving member. The toner layer restricting member includes an inclined portion formed in a lateral region outside of an image forming region to incline gradually away from a surface of a cleaning roller with increasing distance from an inner side of the lateral region. The toner receiving member includes a lower-level upper end portion provided in the lateral region outside of the image forming region, the lower-level upper end portion being located below a second contact region where the cleaning roller and the toner supply roller come into contact with each other. The inclined portion is disposed in a region overlapping the lower-level upper end portion.
Abstract:
A charging device includes a housing, a charging roller, and a brush roller. The housing is disposed adjacent to an optical path of light emitted an the exposure device to irradiate a photoconductor. Charging roller is rotatably supported in housing, and is configured to charge a circumferential surface of the photoconductor through contact. Brush roller is rotatably supported in housing together with charging roller, has multiple brush hairs flocked on a base shaft thereof extending in a longitudinal direction of the charging roller, and is configured to clean a surface of charging roller when brush hairs are brought in contact with charging roller. Furthermore, a predetermined segment of housing is located in a space within a predetermined distance toward a side of housing from the optical path, and is formed from a material having a charge property equivalent to that of the brush hairs.
Abstract:
In one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes an image region dividing portion which determines, within an image formable width, an image boundary position that matches with one of matrix boundaries corresponding to boundaries between dither matrices, and sets image adjustment regions. The image forming apparatus also includes a correction processing portion which uses common calibration data to determine imaginary adjustment regions positioned closest to the image adjustment regions, respectively, in a main scanning direction, and uses a correction amount for the determined imaginary adjustment region to correct the position in a sub-scanning direction, thereby reducing a color shift. The image region dividing portion determines the image boundary position by applying a rounding function to a value obtained by dividing the number of pixels constituting a width of the image adjustment region by the number of pixels in one cycle of the dither matrix in the main scanning direction.
Abstract:
An image forming apparatus performs a halftone process using plural dither matrices. Generated is calibration data to calculate a color registration error amount corresponding to a primary scanning directional position of an image forming available width. An image area dividing unit determines an image boundary position that is identical to any of matrix boundaries of plural dither matrices arranged in an image forming target area, and divides the image forming target area into plural image adjustment areas using the image boundary position. A correction processing unit corrects secondary scanning directional positions of the plural image adjustment areas, using respective correction amounts calculated with the calibration data. Further, the image area dividing unit determines the image boundary position using a remainder left by dividing in the primary scanning direction the number of pixels of the image adjustment area by the number of pixels of the dither matrix.
Abstract:
An optical scanning device has an optical housing. A coupled Helmholtz resonator having a first resonance space and a second resonance space therein is disposed in the optical housing. A translucent partition wall, a first partition wall, and a second partition wall which extend from a bottom wall to a top wall of the optical housing are arranged in this order from an upstream side toward a downstream side on an optical path between a light source and a rotary polygonal mirror. The first and second resonance spaces are separated from each other by the three partition walls. One of the first and second resonance spaces resonates at a frequency of a rotational speed of a motor, and the other of the first and second resonance spaces resonates at a generated frequency of a wind noise generated by the rotary polygonal mirror.
Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes: a speed setting portion configured to set a rotation speed of a drive motor to one of a plurality of predetermined specific speeds; a measurement processing portion configured to, in each of a plurality of detection cycles in which light is detected after scanning by a polygon mirror, measure an interval between a detection timing of the light and an output timing at which a drive signal input to the drive motor of the polygon mirror first after the detection timing, is output; and an identification processing portion configured to identify a reference reflection surface that corresponds to a reference interval, based on the measured interval and the reference interval corresponding to a specific speed at a time when the measured interval was measured, the reference interval being among reference intervals that have been set in advance for each of the specific speeds.
Abstract:
A light guide member has a transmitting/reflecting portion transmitting and reflecting light that is emitted from a light source, to enter one end of the light guide member in a longitudinal direction, and be guided to the other end of the light guide member so that the light is applied to: a position between the developing roller and the transfer roller on the image carrier on a downstream side in the traveling direction of the transfer target member; and a position between the transfer roller and the cleaning portion on the image carrier on an upstream side in the traveling direction of the transfer target member. Furthermore, the light guide member has a convex portion having an arc-shaped cross section and being formed outward at a position opposing the transmitting/reflecting portion in a part of a predetermined specific region at one end or both ends in the longitudinal direction.