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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:
Dec. 17, 1991
Filed:
Feb. 01, 1989
Applicant:
Inventors:
Takao Fujiwara, Osaka, JP;
Katsuhiko Takeda, Osaka, JP;
Assignee:
Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G / ; G03G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
355202 ; 355326 ;
Abstract
An image forming method and apparatus for forming a reproduced color image in which the sequence of supply of the toners of different colors onto the latent image carrier is selected according to the color information of the document to be copied. A controller is provided so as to control the various colored developers in a sequence in which the developers providing the different color toners are operated so that the second toner color overlaps the first toneer color and the first toner color can overlap on the second toner color through a series of colors.