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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:
Aug. 22, 1995
Filed:
Oct. 03, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Hakaru Muto, Yokohama, JP;
Hiromi Kubota, Kawasaki, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
347 15 ; 347 55 ;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus capable of forming a tone image including an image bearing member; electrically independent plural electrodes; a rotatable magnetic field generator having plural magnetic poles to supply magnetic toner particles to a region between the image bearing member and the recording electrodes; a detector for detecting the positions of the magnetic poles of the magnetic field generator; and a controller, responsive to an output of the detector, for controlling application timing of a voltage on the recording electrodes.