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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 10, 2014
Konica Minolta, Inc., Chiyoda-ku, JP;
Morio Osada, Toyokawa, JP;
KONICA MINOLTA, INC., Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus including: a contact charging unit that is in contact with a photoreceptor and electrically charges the photoreceptor by causing electric discharge; a bias applying unit that applies an AC bias to the contact charging unit; and a superposing unit that superposes a DC bias onto the AC bias, the DC bias having a same polarity as a charge polarity of the photoreceptor. The AC bias has a same waveform as a rectangular wave bias during a period in which an absolute value of the AC bias is smaller than an absolute value of a predetermined boundary voltage, and the absolute value of the AC bias increases at a slower rate than an absolute value of the rectangular wave bias during a period in which the absolute value of the AC bias is equal to or greater than an absolute value of a discharge start voltage.