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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. 06, 1999
Filed:
May. 15, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Takanobu Yamada, Toyokawa, JP;
Assignee:
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
399 44 ; 399 45 ; 399 66 ;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus and an image forming method capable of preventing image noise caused by separation discharge between a photosensitive member and a recording sheet while suppressing to a minimum limit the reduction in production efficiency, by detecting environmental conditions and changing the transport spacing of the recording sheet in accordance with the detected environmental conditions.