Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Yoichi Taya

Susumu Nomura

Mamoru Shimono

Tomoyuki Asada

Taiichi Kawaguchi

Kouji Yukinaga

Hajime Tagawa

An image forming apparatus having a voltage generating circuit for generating a bias voltage which is supplied to a developing unit upon reception of a discharge voltage from the charger, for charging a photosensitive drum, based on the discharge voltage. The voltage generating circuit is controlled by a timing signal supplied from the CPU, so that the bias voltage is applied to the developing unit when the photosensitive drum rotates by a predetermined angle and is set at a position where development is carried out.

Image forming apparatus utilizing discharge current of charger

A copying apparatus includes a housing in which are arranged an image carrier and an exposure unit both for emitting light to an original placed on the original stand to form an electrostatic latent image on the image carrier and for emitting light to the image carrier to erase the electrostatic latent image. The exposure unit includes a lamp having light emitting portions and non-light emitting portions which are alternately connected together. A reflector is located around the lamp and directs the light emitted from the lamp toward the original. The reflector has a plurality of openings formed to face the lamp, so that part of the light emitted from the lamp passes through the openings and is directed to the image carrier. The reflector has a plurality of connecting portions facing the non-light-emitting portions and located between adjacent ones of the openings.

Copying apparatus having a lamp to form or erase an image

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Yokohama, Japan

Yoichi Taya