Electrophotography – Control of electrophotography process – Of plural processes
Reexamination Certificate
2009-04-28
2011-11-08
Gray, David (Department: 2852)
Electrophotography
Control of electrophotography process
Of plural processes
Reexamination Certificate
active
08055146
ABSTRACT:
An image forming apparatus, including: an image carrier; an image forming section to form a toner image on the image carrier; a transfer section to transfer the toner image formed on the image carrier to an intermediate transfer body or a recording sheet; a cleaning section to remove not transferred toner particles remaining on the image carrier, an image covering density calculating section to calculate an average image covering density of the toner image formed on plural areas divided in a lateral direction of the image carrier, during a predetermined time period; an obtaining section to obtain a difference of the average image covering density in each divided area, based on the image covering density calculated by the image covering density calculating section; and an adjusting section to adjust an amount of abrasive particles to be supplied to each divided area, based on the differences obtained by the obtaining section.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2002-108161 (2002-04-01), None
patent: 2002-328496 (2002-11-01), None
patent: 3835503 (2006-08-01), None
Machine translation of JP 2002-328496 A.
English translation of JP 2002-328496 A.
Japanese Office Action for Application No. 2008-119593 mailed Apr. 20, 2010 with English translation.
Hayami Toshiki
Kubota Masato
Nishida Satoshi
Cantor & Colburn LLP
Gray David
Konica Minolta Business Technologies Inc.
Labombard Ruth
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