Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus having a toner concentration sensor
- Patent Title (中): 具有调色剂浓度传感器的图像形成装置
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Application No.: US12423741Application Date: 2009-04-14
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Publication No.: US07751731B2Publication Date: 2010-07-06
- Inventor: Shigeru Tsukada , Shunichiro Shishikura , Naoya Yamasaki , Masayuki Aratake
- Applicant: Shigeru Tsukada , Shunichiro Shishikura , Naoya Yamasaki , Masayuki Aratake
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
- Priority: JPP.2005-185950 20050627; JPP.2005-185951 20050627
- Main IPC: G03G15/01
- IPC: G03G15/01 ; G03G15/08

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier on which an electrostatic latent image is formed, a rotary developing device having N developer carriers, where N defines a total number of developer carriers, the N developer carriers carrying developers to develop the electrostatic latent image, and the rotary developing device moves the N developer carriers to a development position opposite to the image carrier, and a toner concentration sensor that measures toner concentrations of the developers carried in the developer carriers. A measurement position of the toner concentration sensor is set on a second virtual straight line with the second virtual straight line having a first angle or an angle that is double the first angle toward a first virtual straight line on a rotation orbit of the rotary device, and the first virtual straight line connects a rotation center of the rotary developing device and the development position. The N developer carriers are placed in turn in an order starting from a first developer carrier to an N-th developer carrier at the same angular interval as the first angle on the rotation orbit of the rotary developing device, and an angular interval between the N-th developer carrier and the first developer carrier is set to a second angle greater than the first angle.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090202261A1 Image Forming Apparatus Having A Toner Concentration Sensor Public/Granted day:2009-08-13
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