Light control device for an image forming apparatus
AssigneeMita Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorsKunihiro Onishi, Akihiro Takada, Kaneyuki Sakamoto
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Abstract
An image forming equipment in which a fluorescent lamp is so preheated by controlling the current flowing level for the fluorescent lamp on non-copying after the power source is turned ON such that light energy of the fluorescent lamp becomes an appointed value according to the ON state of the fluorescent lamp on copying when controlling the light energy of the fluorescent lamp in accordance with the signals which come from the light energy detecting means provided at an end part of a fluorescent lamp which is provided in the width direction of the document to read a document image and copy the same by reflecting light to the image surface of the document.
Claims2
A light control device for an image forming apparatus comprising:
- a timer means for calculating a preheating ON time of a fluorescent lamp during a copying state and a preheating state;
- a subtract means for subtracting a predetermined amount from the ON time of said timer means during a non copying state;
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- a lamp preheating means for supplying a lower electric voltage than an electric voltage of ordinary copying process for the fluorescent lamp during a predetermined interval after the timer means becomes zero when the power source of the apparatus turns ON.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.