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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2014
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Jun Nagatoshi, Tokyo, JP;
Akihiro Fukutomi, Tokyo, JP;
Daisuke Miyagawa, Kawasaki, JP;
Naoki Inoue, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 27/00 (2006.01); B41J 2/435 (2006.01); B41J 2/47 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/471 (2013.01);
Abstract
The image forming apparatus includes a determination unit configured to determine whether or not a polygon mirror has converged to the number of rotations that allows image formation to be performed, and the determination unit is capable of detecting a first timing and a second timing and determines that the polygon mirror has converged to a number of rotations that allows the image formation to be performed based on an earlier one of the first timing and the second timing.