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AssigneeToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKazumasa Takada
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According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a rotatable photoconductor, a laser light source configured to output a laser beam according to an image, a polygon mirror positioned to reflect the laser beam while rotating and cause the laser beam to be incident on the photoconductor along a main scanning direction to form an electrostatic latent image, a photodetector configured to detect the laser beam reflected by the polygon mirror, a developer, a transfer mechanism, and a processor. The processor (a) controls the laser light source such that a light emission intensity of the laser light source is constant when the laser beam is incident on the photodetector, regardless of a rotation speed of the polygon mirror and (b) controls the output timing of the laser beam based on a detection result of the photodetector.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
A computer-readable non-volatile recording medium for an image forming apparatus, the image forming apparatus including a rotatable photoconductor, a laser light source configured to output a laser beam according to an image, a polygon mirror positioned to reflect the laser beam while rotating and cause the laser beam to be incident on the photoconductor along a main scanning direction to form an electrostatic latent image, a photodetector configured to detect the laser beam reflected by the polygon mirror, a developer configured to cause toner to adhere to the electrostatic latent image on the photoconductor to form a toner image, and a transfer mechanism configured to transfer the toner image to an image carrier, the computer-readable non-volatile recording medium including instructions stored thereon that when processed by at least one processor cause the image forming apparatus to perform operations comprising:
A method of forming an image on a recording medium, the method comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.