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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:
Jan. 20, 2026

Filed:

Aug. 17, 2023
Applicant:

Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;

Inventor:

Hiroto Konishi, Osaka, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/44 (2006.01); B41J 2/47 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01); G03G 15/01 (2006.01); G03G 15/04 (2006.01); G03G 15/043 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/5045 (2013.01); B41J 2/442 (2013.01); B41J 2/473 (2013.01); G03G 15/011 (2013.01); G03G 15/0178 (2013.01); G03G 15/04009 (2013.01); G03G 15/04072 (2013.01); G03G 15/043 (2013.01);
Abstract

An image forming apparatus includes four photosensitive members, a first optical scanning unit, a second optical scanning unit, a first detection unit, a second detection unit and a control unit. The first optical scanning unit draws a first reference image and a first opposite image. The second optical scanning unit draws a second reference image and draws a second opposite image. The first detection unit detects the internal temperature of at least one of the first optical scanning unit and the second optical scanning unit. The second detection unit detects an apparatus internal temperature within an apparatus main body. The control unit corrects positions of the drawing of the first opposite image, the drawing of the second reference image and the drawing of the second opposite image based on the amount of change in the internal temperature and the amount of change in the apparatus internal temperature.


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