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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2019
Applicant:
Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Spring, TX (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P., Spring, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/00 (2006.01); G03G 15/02 (2006.01); G03G 15/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/5037 (2013.01); G03G 15/0216 (2013.01); G03G 15/0806 (2013.01); G03G 15/0862 (2013.01); G03G 15/556 (2013.01); G03G 15/0813 (2013.01); G03G 2215/00679 (2013.01); G03G 2215/207 (2013.01); G03G 2221/0084 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a toner supply unit, an application roller adjacent to the image carrier, a toner measuring unit, and a control unit. The toner supply unit supplies toner to the image carrier. The application roller applies a lubricant to the image carrier. The toner measuring unit measures an amount of toner transferred from the image carrier to the application roller. The control unit adjusts the supply of toner to be supplied to the image carrier in accordance with the amount of toner measured by the toner measuring unit.