Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Exposure timing determining method and image-forming apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 曝光时间确定方法和图像形成装置
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Application No.: US12554378Application Date: 2009-09-04
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Publication No.: US08478147B2Publication Date: 2013-07-02
- Inventor: Hiroshi Ichikawa
- Applicant: Hiroshi Ichikawa
- Applicant Address: JP Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken
- Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken
- Agency: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.
- Priority: JP2008-228387 20080905
- Main IPC: G03G15/00
- IPC: G03G15/00

Abstract:
A toner image on a photosensitive drum exposed with an LED light beam radiated from an LED section and developed by an image-forming unit is transferred by an image-forming apparatus to a printing paper when the printing paper, which is fed from a paper feed tray or a manual feed tray and which is transported by a transport mechanism by a feeder section, passes through a process section. A control unit of the image-forming apparatus determines an exposure timing at which the LED section starts the exposure, depending on a supply source of the printing paper sheet to be subjected to the transfer by the process section. Therefore, the error of the photosensitive member arrival time, which is caused by the change of the transport route, is absorbed, and the deviation of the transfer start position, which results from the error, is suppressed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100061748A1 Exposure Timing Determining Method and Image-Forming Apparatus Public/Granted day:2010-03-11
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