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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. 29, 1991
Filed:
Jan. 14, 1988
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G / ; G03B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
355208 ; 346160 ; 355 69 ; 355219 ;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus responsive to environmental conditions has an image forming device for forming a dot image on a recording member. The image forming device includes exposure apparatus for exposing the recording member. A detector detects a humidity condition of the apparatus, and control circuitry regulates the amount of light of the exposure apparatus in accordance with an output of the detector. The control circuitry is adapted, when the humidity detected by the detector is lower than a predetermined value, to select an amount of light of the exposure apparatus larger than that in the case where the humidity is higher than the predetermined value.