Konica Minolta, Inc.

Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

Shinichi Yoshimoto

Yasuyuki Inada

Kanji Nakayama

Yuusuke Mandai

Junji Kanda

Yu Mukobayashi

Hidetoshi Noguchi

Hiroaki Umemoto

Yohei Ito

Futoshi Okazaki

Masanori Kawada

Osamu Maeda

Kazuyoshi Ota

Shinya Tokutake

Toshiaki Shima

An image forming apparatus includes an image former which forms an image on an image carrying member with toner stored in a storage, a toner supplier which supplies toner to the storage by driving a conveyance member, a density measurer which causes the image former to form an image having a predetermined density at a predetermined timing and measures density of the formed image, a corrector which corrects a driving amount of the conveyance member based on the density measured by the density measurer, and a changer which changes a timing when the density measurer measures the density in response to an event that a predetermined condition is satisfied.

Image forming apparatus which determines a toner supplying amount based on predicted toner consumption and predicted density of stored toner, toner supply method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium encoded with toner supply program

A developing device includes a developer carrying member and first and second conveyance members. The first conveyance member conveys a developer in a first direction through a first conveyance path to the developer carrying member. The second conveyance member conveys the developer in a second direction through a second conveyance path included in a circulation path along with the first conveyance path. The second conveyance member has a helical second screw around a second shaft. The second conveyance path includes a developer replenishing port and a developer discharge port. The second screw is approximately constant in diameter in a second section being a portion extending a predetermined distance from an end of the discharge port in the second direction when viewed in a top view. The second screw conveys the developer at a lower speed in the second section than on an upstream side with respect to the second section.

Developing device and image forming apparatus

An image forming device includes: a charging unit configured to apply charging bias voltage to a charging member and charge a surface of an image carrying body; an exposure unit configured to expose the surface of the image carrying body, and form an electrostatic latent image; a developing unit configured to apply developing bias voltage to a developer carrying body, and develop the electrostatic latent image; and a control unit configured to control timing to start applying the developing bias voltage relative to timing to start applying the charging bias voltage, wherein the control unit performs control such that the larger an absolute value of the charging bias voltage is, the shorter an interval from timing to start applying the charging bias voltage to timing to start applying the developing bias voltage becomes, and such that the smaller the absolute value is, the longer the interval becomes.

Image forming device, control method for image forming device, and control program for image forming device

There are provided a developing device including a developing roller to develop an image carrier by use of a two-component developer and a developing bias power source, and an image forming apparatus using the developing device. The developing device further includes a variable resistance unit provided on a bias apply path to apply a bias from the developing power source to the developing roller, and a resistance controller to control a resistance value of the variable resistance unit based on a charge amount signal indicating a toner's charge amount in a developer layer on the developing roller. The resistance controller provides a low mode to lower the resistance of the variable resistance unit and a high mode to enhance the resistance. The low mode is set if the toner charge amount is low, and the high mode is set if the toner charge amount is high.

There is provided a developer conveyance member that conveys a contained developer from one end side of a delivery region to other end of the delivery region while agitating the contained developer in a developer container, in which the developer is contained. Around a rotation shaft of the developer conveyance member, a spiral wing toward from one end side to other end side is formed. A plurality of paddle parts for conveying the developer in a direction that is perpendicular to a shaft core are formed around the rotation shaft in a delivery region. The paddle parts are arranged with their positions deviated in a circumferential direction.

Developer conveyance device, developing device, and image forming device

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Toyohashi, Japan

Shinichi Yoshimoto