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US 5,400,129 AGranted
Optimizing cleaner bias for cleaning multiple toners
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsClark V. Lange, Robert P. Siegel
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for adjusting the bias of a cleaner used in a printer or digital copier such that the cleaner bias is optimized for the dominant color entering the cleaner.
Claims21
A method of cleaning particles from an imaging surface, comprising the steps of:
- determining the color of the particles to be used to develop a latent image recorded on the imaging surface;
- recording the latent image on the imaging surface;
- developing the recorded latent image on the imaging surface with the particles;
- adjusting an electrical bias being applied to a cleaner, in response to the color of the particles determined by said determining step;
- and
- using the cleaner having the electrical bias adjusted to remove the particles from the imaging surface.
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An apparatus for removing particles from an imaging surface, comprising:
- means for determining the color of the particles to be used to develop a latent image recorded on the imaging surface;
- means for recording the latent image on the imaging surface;
- means for developing the recorded latent image on the imaging surface with the particles;
- means for cleaning the particles from the imaging surface;
- and
- means for adjusting an electrical bias being applied to the cleaning means in response to the color of the particles determined by said determining means.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.