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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 08, 2023
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Shinsuke Kobayashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Ai Suzuki, Tokyo, JP;
Kensuke Umeda, Kanagawa, JP;
Kazuhiro Funatani, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/16 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01); G03G 15/02 (2006.01); G03G 15/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/5008 (2013.01); G03G 15/0225 (2013.01); G03G 15/0233 (2013.01); G03G 15/065 (2013.01); G03G 15/1675 (2013.01); G03G 15/5045 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image forming apparatus controls the number of rotations of a photosensitive drum based on information related to the use of the photosensitive drum and a suspension time in a rotation operation of rotating the photosensitive drum after a lapse of the suspension time between a first image forming operation of forming an image on a transfer material and a second image forming operation performed after the first image forming operation.