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Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2017

Filed:

Mar. 09, 2016
Applicants:

Motohiro Kawanabe, Osaka, JP;

Yoshinori Shirasaki, Osaka, JP;

Masayuki Hayashi, Osaka, JP;

Masatoshi Murakami, Osaka, JP;

Yuusuke Kohri, Osaka, JP;

Akinori Yamaguchi, Osaka, JP;

Inventors:

Motohiro Kawanabe, Osaka, JP;

Yoshinori Shirasaki, Osaka, JP;

Masayuki Hayashi, Osaka, JP;

Masatoshi Murakami, Osaka, JP;

Yuusuke Kohri, Osaka, JP;

Akinori Yamaguchi, Osaka, JP;

Assignee:

Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/04 (2006.01); G03G 15/043 (2006.01); G03G 21/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/043 (2013.01); G03G 15/04054 (2013.01); G03G 21/08 (2013.01);
Abstract

An optical writing control device controls emission or lighting of a light source onto a photoconductor surface in a latent image forming process and a discharge process, by either setting a light emission time longer in the discharge process or setting a resolution in a sub-scanning direction lower in the discharge process, compared to the latent image forming process.


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