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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2010
Hideya Muramoto, Osaka, JP;
Hirohisa Endou, Osaka, JP;
Eiji Nimura, Osaka, JP;
Ikuo Makie, Osaka, JP;
Masaki Hayashi, Osaka, JP;
Yoshihiro Yamagishi, Osaka, JP;
Hideya Muramoto, Osaka, JP;
Hirohisa Endou, Osaka, JP;
Eiji Nimura, Osaka, JP;
Ikuo Makie, Osaka, JP;
Masaki Hayashi, Osaka, JP;
Yoshihiro Yamagishi, Osaka, JP;
Kyocera Mita Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes: an image carrier that carries an electrostatic latent image; a development device that includes a toner carrier which is disposed opposite to the image carrier, carries and supplies toner to the image carrier, and develops the electrostatic latent image formed on a surface of the image carrier; and a control means that performs a refresh process in which toner is ejected from the toner carrier to the image carrier in a time an image is not formed, and a toner ejection pattern which is formed by ejecting a line image a plurality of times that has an acute angle to a main scan direction at predetermined intervals in a circumferential direction of the image carrier over a total width of a development region.