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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. 14, 1996
Filed:
May. 19, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Kazuto Hori, Osaka, JP;
Sadao Tanigawa, Osaka, JP;
Assignee:
Mita Industrial Co., Ltd., , JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
355208 ; 355214 ; 355246 ;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus capable of detecting a toner image density well by shifting a developing bias. In adjusting a fog density or a solid density, the developing bias is shifted by a specified width so as to form an image of a gray density. This enables detection of the fog density and the solid density to be replaced with detection of a density in a gray density region where a reflection type photosensor can detect a density with high sensitivity. Thus, densities in a fog or solid density region where usually an output from the reflection type photosensor is saturated can be detected with high accuracy.