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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 05, 2019
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Satoru Takezawa, Abiko, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/04 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01); G03G 21/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/04072 (2013.01); G03G 15/04036 (2013.01); G03G 15/5041 (2013.01); G03G 21/20 (2013.01); G03G 2215/00037 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image forming apparatus with an image forming unit, including a photosensitive drum and an optical scanning device having a transparent window through which laser light that scans the photosensitive drum passes. The image forming apparatus further includes a cleaning mechanism configured to clean the transparent window and a controller unit configured to control the cleaning mechanism to clean the transparent window, wherein the controller unit controls the image forming unit to form an adjustment pattern on the photosensitive drum after the cleaning mechanism performs a cleaning operation for cleaning the transparent window.