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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:
Sep. 18, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 13, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41B / ; H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358-15 ; 358504 ;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a scan unit for scanning a light beam modulated based on an image signal in the main scan direction, and a drive unit for rotating an image carrier in the subscan direction of an image. The rotation period of the image carrier is set to be an integer multiple of the scan period in the main scan direction of the light beam by the scan unit.