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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:
May. 23, 1989
Filed:
May. 26, 1987
Applicant:
Inventors:
Hiroshi Kuru, Hachioji, JP;
Tomio Arai, Hachioji, JP;
Assignee:
Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
355208 ; 355246 ; 118663 ; 222D / ;
Abstract
A toner density control method and apparatus of a copying device for copying continuously from a plurality of documents onto recording sheets optically detect the density of a patch image of a reference density plate formed on the surface of a photosensitive drum of the copying device so as to control the toner density. The patch image is formed prior to formation of an image of a first one of a plurality of the documents, the density of the patch image is detected, and a toner replenishment amount during a copying operation of the plurality of documents is maintained constant on the basis of the detected density.