Image forming apparatus

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2007-02-20

2007-02-20

Gray, David M. (Department: 2852)

Electrophotography

Machine operation

C399S037000, C399S070000, C399S088000

Reexamination Certificate

active

10949455

ABSTRACT:
There is described an image forming apparatus, in which the influence of the overall controlling section startup time is reduced, thereby cutting down the time from turning on of power to enabling of image formation. The image forming apparatus includes: a main power switch to turn ON/OFF an AC power source to be supplied into the image forming apparatus; a DC power current generating section to convert AC power current, fed from the AC power source, to DC power current; an overall-controlling section to control overall operations of the image forming apparatus; an engine-controlling section to conduct a predetermined controlling operation among from controlling operations to be conducted in the image forming apparatus; a first power-controlling section, included in the overall-controlling section and/or controlled by the overall-controlling section; and a second power-controlling section, having a starting time shorter than that of the first power-controlling section.

REFERENCES:
patent: 6427056 (2002-07-01), Kawano et al.
patent: 6567626 (2003-05-01), Akaike et al.

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