The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
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. 07, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2006
Yoshinobu Takeyama, Kawasaki, JP;
Yoshinobu Takeyama, Kawasaki, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus in which image warp and shift are able to be more precisely suppressed to prevent the deterioration of image quality, including a fluctuation amount detection device for detecting at a fixed cycle sampling point the belt fluctuation amount of an intermediate transfer body from a reference position in the direction orthogonal to the running direction of the intermediate transfer body or the main scanning direction, and a control unit which, in accordance with belt fluctuation amount data that expresses the belt fluctuation amount detected by the fluctuation amount detection device, corrects start position data that expresses the write start position data in the main scanning direction of the write device, and alters the fixed cycle sampling point when the amount of change in the belt fluctuation amount data in adjacent sampling points of the fixed cycle sampling points is greater than a value set in advance.