Image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorNobuhiko Zaima
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
An image forming apparatus including: an image forming device for forming a toner image on an image bearing member by using a developer contained in a developing container; a density sensor for detecting a density of a detection toner image formed by the image forming device; a control device for controlling an amount of the developer to be supplied from a developer supplying container into the developing container in accordance with an output of the density sensor and a target value; a correcting device for correcting the output of the density sensor in accordance with an ambient environment; and a setting device for setting a value obtained by the correcting device as the target value.
Claims7
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- image forming means for forming a toner image on an image bearing member by using a developer contained in a developing container;
- a density sensor for detecting a density of a detection toner image formed by the image forming means;
- control means for controlling an amount of the developer to be supplied from a developer supplying container into the developing container in accordance with an output of the density sensor and a target value;
- correcting means for correcting the output of the density sensor in accordance with an ambient environment;
- and
- setting means for setting a value obtained by the correcting means as the target value.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.