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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:
Dec. 10, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Yuji Kamiya, Abiko, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 1/500 ; G03G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 1/500 ; G03G / ;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, an image forming unit for forming an image on the image bearing member and a detector for detecting the surface potential of the image bearing member, wherein a first image forming mode and a second image forming mode in which the image forming conditions of the image forming unit are different from each other can be selected, and further, the apparatus includes a controller for controlling the image forming conditions in the first and second image forming modes on the basis of the result detected by the detector for the first image forming mode.