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| 20110280605 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a toner image forming unit, a sensor, and a control unit. The toner image forming unit is configured to form a toner image on the image bearing member. The sensor includes a light-emitting unit for emitting li... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110229182 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member for bearing a toner image; toner image forming means for forming a toner image on the image bearing member; a detecting member for directing light to an object and for detecting the light reflected by the objec... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110222892 | DENSITY SENSOR AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME A density sensor detects a density of a subject according to a variation in received light. The density sensor comprises a base plate, a light emitting element irradiating a subject with light, the light receiving element receiving light reflected by the subject, lead t... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110200349 | Optical sensor and image forming apparatus incorporating optical sensor An optical sensor attached to an apparatus includes a substrate and a light emitting element mounted on a first surface of the substrate. The light emitting element emits a light to a detection object in parallel to the substrate. A light receiving element is mounted on... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110091235 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD TO DETECT TONER THEREOF An image forming apparatus to detect the toner density of a patch pattern formed on a photosensitive medium or a transfer belt without a deviation in light intensity includes a density sensor including a light emitter to scan light onto at least one patch pattern formed... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110052239 | OPTICAL SENSOR AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An optical sensor includes: a light-emitting unit; a light-receiving unit that receives light radiated from the light-emitting unit and reflected from a detection target and that outputs an output value in response to the light received; and a correcting unit that corre... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110044713 | REFLECTIVE OPTICAL SENSOR AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS A reflective optical sensor includes at least three light-emitting elements; a lighting optical system that guides light emitted from the light-emitting elements to a toner pattern; and at least three light-receiving elements that receive the beams of light reflected by... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043810 | REFLECTIVE OPTICAL SENSOR AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS A reflective optical sensor detects a position and/or a toner density of the toner pattern. The reflective optical sensor includes an illuminating system that has at least three light-emitting units, a light-receiving system that has at least three light-receiving units... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110002704 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS THAT TRANSFERS TONER IMAGE CARRIED BY IMAGE CARRIER ONTO SHEET, DENSITY CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM An image forming apparatus capable of identifying the amount of reflected light from any portion of an image carrier in a short time. A sensor detects reflected light from an intermediate transfer belt. A CPU performs pattern matching between the amount of reflected lig... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100322648 | TONER IMAGE HEIGHT MEASUREMENT APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME A toner image height measurement apparatus capable of accurately measuring heights of toner images of respective colors with a relatively simple construction and without being affected by toner colors. With motion of an image carrier, there occurs a change in reflection... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100296822 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Failures of respective light emitting elements are detected without printing on a sheet. An image forming apparatus includes an optical scanning section including plural light emitting sections each including plural light emitting elements, plural photoreceptors which a... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100272462 | Image Forming Apparatus Having an Optical Sensor An image forming apparatus includes a sensor having a light emitting section for irradiating a detection area and a light receiving section for outputting a light sensitive signal indicative of the amount of the light received from the detection area. A sensor adjustmen... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100266302 | TONER-DENSITY CALCULATING METHOD, REFLECTIVE OPTICAL SENSOR, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS In a reflective optical sensor in an image forming apparatus, an output from each N number of light-receiving elements (N≧3), obtained when M number of light-emitting elements (M≧3) included in a light-emitting unit emit detecting light, is separated into an amount ... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100054774 | IMAGE DENSITY CONTROL DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image density control device includes a first detecting unit that detects a light amount of first specular reflected light which is reflected from a surface of an image carrier, a second detecting unit that detects a light amount of first diffuse reflected light whic... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100045770 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRINTING Aspects of the disclosure provide a method for improving performance of a raster output scanner (ROS) system with a reduced cost. The method can include identifying a current mirror facet of a motor polygon assembly (MPA) including multiple mirror facets that each mirro... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100021196 | MEASURING APPARATUS, MEASURING METHOD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS A toner amount measuring unit irradiates a toner image formed on an image carrying member with light, and an image capturing unit captures an image of a reflected waveform according to light reflected by the toner image. Then, an amount of applied toner is calculated ba... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20100003045 | ELECTROGRAPHIC DOT GAIN AND OPTICAL DENSITY DECOUPLING METHOD, XEROGRAPHIC IMAGE REPRODUCTION, AND SYSTEMS, METHODS AND SOFTWARE RELATED THERETO A method is provided for decoupling the control of dot gain and optical density in electrophotographic based printing by varying the exposure level for each dot in an image.... | 01/07/2010 |
| 20100003044 | AMPLITUDE MODULATION OF ILLUMINATORS IN SENSING APPLICATIONS IN PRINTING SYSTEM An image printing system includes a print engine and a sensing system. The print engine is configured to print a marking material image on a image bearing surface. The sensing system includes a plurality of illuminators, a modulator, a sensor, and a demodulator. Each il... | 01/07/2010 |
| 20090297200 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image forming apparatus includes a pattern forming unit which forms a light amount adjustment pattern on an image carrier belt, a light amount control unit which controls the amount of light irradiating the image carrier belt and pattern, a detection sensor which det... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090238590 | TONER-DENSITY CALCULATING METHOD, REFLECTIVE OPTICAL SENSOR, REFLECTIVE OPTICAL SENSOR DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS A toner density is calculated from outputs of light-receiving elements based on a difference between a reflection property of a supporting member and a reflection property of a toner pattern. Light-emitting elements aligned in one direction that is inclined to a sub-dir... | 09/24/2009 |
| 20090169233 | Image Formation Device An electrophotographic image formation device comprises an image transfer unit (including an image transfer member) attached to a main body in a detachable manner, a density detecting unit including a detector unit and thereby detecting density of a developing agent tra... | 07/02/2009 |
| 20090162089 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CALCULATING AN AMOUNT OF TONER TRANSFER BY CONVERTING REGULAR REFLECTION OUTPUT INTO A NORMALIZED VALUE An amount of toner transfer on a reference pattern is calculated by using an optical detecting unit that detects both regular reflection light and diffuse reflection light from a detection target simultaneously, based on a relative ratio between a value obtained by subt... | 06/25/2009 |
| 20090142087 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image forming method includes detecting a toner degradation state by detecting an image density on an electrostatic latent image carrier with high sensitivity and low cost. The degraded toner is processed based on the detected information, so that the waste toner can... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090136251 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image forming apparatus capable of setting a criterion individually for respective image forming apparatuses, which is used in determining whether or not a developer is properly supplied to a developing unit, thereby stabilizing a developer toner density. With a shut... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090097874 | Image forming apparatus and control method thereof It is determined whether a low density area in which pixels having density less than a predetermined density exist in succession is included in an image signal or not, and if the low density area exists, an image is formed by irradiating the laser light in a first condi... | 04/16/2009 |
| 20090087207 | IMAGE-FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF An image-forming apparatus sets a DAC output voltage 1602, a VI conversion5 current ID 1603, and a laser current IL 1604 using a correction profile 1601, and performs density nonuniformity correction that addresses various factors contributin... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090016762 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image forming apparatus includes a toner image forming device configured to form a toner image on an image conveying member, a detector configured to optically detect a density of the toner image on the image conveying member, a controller configured to control an im... | 01/15/2009 |
| 20090010669 | Developing device, image forming apparatus including the same and developing method The change in an output voltage when a control voltage is changed is calculated, and the change in the control voltage divided by the calculated change in the output voltage is defined as a sensitivity coefficient. The sensitivity coefficient is recalculated for each pr... | 01/08/2009 |
| 20080310873 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS An image forming apparatus is constituted by a dark color image forming station for forming an image with such a toner of recording materials having the same hue and different lightness as has a lower lightness; a light color image forming station for forming an image w... | 12/18/2008 |
| 20080253793 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF EFFICIENT TONER CONCENTRATION CONTROL An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form a plurality of toner images on an image carrier, an optical detector configured to detect reflection light from the toner image, and dedicated to detect infrared rays and near-infrared rays, an... | 10/16/2008 |
| 20080187343 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An optical sensor detects at least one of a toner image and a toner adhesion amount per unit area based on a change of an optical characteristic on a surface of an endless belt member. A control unit performs a predetermined process based on a detection result obtained ... | 08/07/2008 |
| 20080181647 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image forming apparatus comprising: an image bearing member; a toner image forming means forming a toner image on the image bearing member, using light toners, and dark toners which have a same hue as that of the light toners and are darker than the light toners; a t... | 07/31/2008 |
| 20080159766 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND DENSITY ADJUSTING METHOD An apparatus prohibits an unfair copying of a document by forming a latent image region and a background region on the document in a manner that prevents detection of their existence. The apparatus has a controller that detects background region densities and latent ima... | 07/03/2008 |
| 20080145089 | IMAGE-FORMING DEVICE An image-forming device has an image-forming unit, a toner density detection unit, a reflective shutter, a storage unit, and a control unit. The image-forming unit forms a toner image on an image-carrying member. The toner density detection unit detects a toner density ... | 06/19/2008 |
| 20080124115 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR An image processing apparatus which makes it possible to correct the image density of a target color in real time and maintain highly accurate image density characteristics over a long term. In a first control, the output of a laser driver is controlled such that the gr... | 05/29/2008 |
| 20080124114 | Image Forming Apparatus An image processing apparatus, according to the present invention can include a forming portion capable of forming a mark on a bearing member, a light projecting portion capable of irradiating a light onto the bearing member, a light receiving portion capable of receivi... | 05/29/2008 |
| 20080118268 | METHOD OF COARSE CALIBRATION OF THE PACKER SENSOR USING A ZERO % TC READING A method for calibrating a toner concentration sensor may include obtaining a zero % TC reading from the toner concentration sensor using a carrier material, determining an estimated TC intercept, and adjusting the toner concentration sensor based on the estimated TC in... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20080089706 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image forming apparatus capable of ensuring a sufficient difference between amounts of light reflected from a base such as a transfer material and from a toner pattern in the detection of the toner pattern for registration correction control by a reflective optical s... | 04/17/2008 |
| 20080075495 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS In an image forming apparatus of the present invention, an allowable temperature range of a fixing unit is divided into a plurality of fixing temperature ranges, and image data conversion γ tables respectively suitable for the divided fixing temperature ranges are prep... | 03/27/2008 |
| 20080063421 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image forming apparatus includes a first image forming station for forming, on the basis of an input signal indicative of an image, a toner image on a recording material with such a toner of toners having the same hue and different lightness as has a predetermined co... | 03/13/2008 |
