Image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYusuke Ishida
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member on which an electrostatic image is formed; a developing device for developing the electrostatic image formed on the image bearing member with a developer including toner and a carrier; a supplying apparatus for supplying into the developing device a supply developer including toner by rotating a feeding screw; inclination detecting means for detecting an inclination of the feeding screw; and control means for controlling rotation of the feeding screw on the basis of a result of detection of the inclination detecting means.
Claims8
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image bearing member on which an electrostatic image is formed;
- a developing device for developing the electrostatic image formed on said image bearing member with a developer including toner and a carrier;
- a supplying apparatus for supplying into said developing device a supply developer including toner by rotating a feeding screw;
- inclination detecting means for detecting an inclination of said feeding screw;
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- control means for controlling rotation of said feeding screw on the basis of a result of detection of said inclination detecting means.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image bearing member on which an electrostatic image is formed;
- a developing device for developing the electrostatic image formed on said image bearing member with a developer including toner and a carrier,
- wherein a reference toner image is formed;
- image density detecting means for detecting a density of the reference toner image;
- a supplying apparatus for supplying into said developing device a supply developer including toner by rotating a feeding screw;
- control means for controlling rotation of said feeding screw on the basis of a result of detection of said image density detecting means,
- inclination detecting means for detecting an inclination of said feeding screw, wherein said image density detecting means changes a frequency of reference toner image forming operation on the basis of a result of detection of said inclination detecting means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.