IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS THAT CALCULATES SURFACE POTENTIAL OF IMAGE CARRIER ACCORDING TO DEVELOPING CURRENT

    公开(公告)号:US20220004116A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-01-06

    申请号:US17362948

    申请日:2021-06-29

    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a charging device, a developing device, a developing power source, a current measuring device, and a processor. On a surface of the image carrier, an electrostatic latent image is formed. The charging device electrically charges the image carrier. The developing device forms a toner image, by supplying toner to the image carrier and developing the electrostatic latent image formed on the image carrier. The developing power source applies a predetermined bias voltage to the developing device. The current measuring device measures a developing current flowing in the developing device. The processor acts, by executing a control program, as a calculator that calculates a surface potential of the image carrier, on a basis of the developing current measured by the measuring device.

    IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    13.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20210263442A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-08-26

    申请号:US17178577

    申请日:2021-02-18

    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image forming units, a developing voltage power supply, a current detection unit, and a control unit. The image forming units form an image by superimposing a toner image of a same color and a same type, and substantially same development conditions are set to evenly divide an image density among the image forming units. The control unit detects whether there is an anomaly in the image forming unit based on detecting a DC component of developing current, being either of current flowing through a non-exposed portion of an image carrier during image formation, and current flowing through an exposed portion of the image carrier. When an anomaly is detected in any image forming unit, the control unit inhibits use of the image forming unit, and resets the development conditions to evenly divide an image density among the usable image forming units.

    IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS DETERMINING TONER REPLACEMENT TIMING

    公开(公告)号:US20210240102A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-08-05

    申请号:US17165370

    申请日:2021-02-02

    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a toner charge amount predictor, a toner developing resistance calculator, and a determiner. The toner developing resistance calculator calculates a toner developing resistance on the basis of a bias voltage applied to a developing device and a measured developing current by dividing a value of the bias voltage by a value of the developing current when a developing device develops an electrostatic latent image formed on the surface of an image carrier to form a toner image. The toner charge amount predictor predicts a toner charge amount of a toner which is supplied to the image carrier by the developing device on the basis of a density of the toner image and the developing current. The determiner determines a state of the developing device on the basis of the toner charge amount and the toner developing resistance.

    IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    15.
    发明申请
    IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS 有权
    图像形成装置

    公开(公告)号:US20140240728A1

    公开(公告)日:2014-08-28

    申请号:US14189912

    申请日:2014-02-25

    Inventor: Kazunori TANAKA

    CPC classification number: H04N1/6058 G06K15/1878 H04N1/6022

    Abstract: An image forming apparatus performs image formation of a target image with the use of a first color gamut as a standard color gamut for image formation. The image forming apparatus includes a storage section, a color conversion section, and an image forming section. The storage section stores a color expansion table indicating a second color gamut wider than the first color gamut. The color conversion section converts, when a color in the target image is present outside the first color gamut, a color value of the color in the target image to a color value of a coloring material used for image formation on the basis of the color expansion table. The image forming section performs image formation of the target image on the basis of the color value of the coloring material.

    Abstract translation: 图像形成装置利用第一色域作为用于图像形成的标准色域来执行目标图像的图像形成。 图像形成装置包括存储部,颜色转换部和图像形成部。 存储部存储指示比第一色域宽的第二色域的色彩扩展表。 当目标图像中的颜色存在于第一色域之外时,颜色转换部分将目标图像中的颜色的颜色值基于颜色扩展用于图像形成的着色材料的颜色值 表。 图像形成部根据着色材料的颜色值进行目标图像的图像形成。

    IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    17.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20230026905A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-26

    申请号:US17858446

    申请日:2022-07-06

    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an amorphous silicon photosensitive member, a developing device including a developer carrying member that carries a two-component developer, and a control portion. When a potential difference V0−Vdc between the photosensitive member and the developer carrying member has a first potential difference at which the toner is moved from the developer carrying member to the photosensitive member and a second potential difference at which the toner is moved from the photosensitive member to the developer carrying member, the control portion adjusts V0 or Vdc so that the first potential difference and the second potential difference are equal in value and opposite in polarity, and a first development current |Ia| that flows at the first potential difference and a second development current |Ib| that flows at the second potential difference satisfy 1.9×10−2≥|Ib|/N≥5.7×103 [μA/mm].

    IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    18.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20230019917A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-19

    申请号:US17812097

    申请日:2022-07-12

    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes image forming units. A controller includes an execution section, a measurement section, and a prediction section. The execution section controls execution of a developer refresh operation in which toner is ejected from a developer bearing member to an image bearing member so that a specific image forming unit replenishes a development device with the toner from the developer bearing member. The measurement section measures respective surface potentials of the image bearing members included in other image forming units while the specific image forming unit is executing the developer refresh operation. The prediction section uses measurement results of the respective surface potentials of the image bearing members included in the other image forming units for a prediction on the surface potential of the image bearing member included in the specific image forming unit.

    IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    19.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20210302859A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-09-30

    申请号:US17210901

    申请日:2021-03-24

    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a development device which develops an electrostatic latent image formed on a photosensitive drum into a toner image; a charger which charges the photosensitive drum; a development power supply which applies a prescribed bias voltage to the development device; and a calculating section which calculates a surface potential of the photosensitive drum based on a development current flowing in the development device. The calculating section calculates, as the surface potential, a bias voltage at which a non-charging development current that flows in the development device in an uncharged state in which the charger has not charged the photosensitive drum is equal to a charging development current that flows in the development device in a charged state in which the charger has charged the photosensitive drum.

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