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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:
Apr. 21, 1992
Filed:
Jul. 19, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Hiroyuki Miyake, Inagi, JP;
Yutaka Komiya, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G / ; G03B / ; G03B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
355208 ; 355 68 ; 355 69 ; 355214 ;
Abstract
An image formation apparatus such as a copying machine has a standard white plate, an optical system for forming a latent image on a photosensitive drum, a photosensor such as a linear image sensor for detecting the amounts of light reflected from the standard white plate and an original, and a control section including a CPU and an exposure control circuit and/or a bias control circuit for controlling the light exposure amount or the developing bias voltage in accordance with the difference between the light amounts from the standard white plate and the original.