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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 12, 2002
Masayoshi Ishii, Ibaraki, JP;
Keisuke Kubota, Ibaraki, JP;
Teruaki Mitsuya, Ibaraki, JP;
Shintaro Yamada, Ibaraki, JP;
Other;
Abstract
An image formation apparatus for keeping secularly stable image quality for all image patterns if change in the charge amount of a developer caused by environment variation or over time or change in the photoconductor characteristic occurs in electrophotographic record apparatus. A test patch image formed on a photoconductor by a parallel electric field is detected by an image density sensor, the developing bias and the photoconductor surface potential are controlled so that the density detected by the image density sensor becomes constant, a test patch image formed on the photoconductor by a peripheral electric field is detected by the image density sensor with the control condition of the image density sensor maintained, and the light application amount in which an image area of a several-dot width adjacent a blank paper part is exposed to light is controlled so that the density detected by the image density sensor becomes constant.