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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2019

Filed:

Apr. 05, 2018
Applicant:

Konica Minolta, Inc., Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Yoshikazu Watanabe, Toyohashi, JP;

So Yano, Ibaraki, JP;

Sotaro Yokota, Toyohashi, JP;

Assignee:

Konica Minolta, Inc., Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/043 (2006.01); G03G 15/04 (2006.01); G03G 15/01 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01); G03B 27/00 (2006.01); B41J 2/45 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/04054 (2013.01); G03B 27/00 (2013.01); G03G 15/011 (2013.01); G03G 15/043 (2013.01); G03G 15/5004 (2013.01); B41J 2/45 (2013.01); G03G 2215/0409 (2013.01);
Abstract

An image forming device includes: element arrays each including light emitting elements arranged in main scanning direction, the arrays being arranged in sub scanning direction; a photoreceptor whose surface moves relative to the light emitting elements in the sub scanning direction; a controller outputting control voltage instructing light emission amount for each light emitting element; and drivers each supplying drive current to a corresponding light emitting element according to the control voltage, thus causing the light emitting element to emit light to expose the moving surface of the photoreceptor. Intervals L between the arrays satisfy (D/2)×(V/F)−((V/F)×0.1)≤L≤(D/2)×(V/F)+((V/F)×0.1) where F expresses frequency of AC noise to be superimposed on the control voltage, V expresses system speed of the surface of the photoreceptor moving relative to the light emitting elements, and D is an odd number.


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