Image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorRyo Inoue
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
An image forming apparatus capable of making potential control executable immediately after starting copying and shortening a first copying time includes a photosensitive drum (1), a charging magnetic brush charger (2) for charging the photosensitive drum (1) and a main electricity eliminating light irradiating apparatus (8) for irradiating light to eliminate a light memory in the photosensitive drum 1. The main electricity eliminating light irradiating apparatus (8) irradiates the photosensitive drum (1) with an exposure amount larger than a minimum exposure amount for eliminating a light memory in at least a part of an irradiation process.
Claims20
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a photosensitive member;
- charging means for charging said photosensitive member;
- exposing means for exposing said photosensitive member charged by said charging means so as to form a latent image on said photosensitive member;
- and
- light irradiating means for irradiating light on said photosensitive member to eliminate a light memory of said photosensitive member,
- wherein said light irradiating means irradiates said photosensitive member with an amount of light larger than a minimum amount of light for eliminating a light memory in a period between an image forming operation for developing a latent image formed on said photosensitive member with toner and transferring the toner image to a recording material and an image forming operation with respect to the next recording material.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a photosensitive member;
- charging means for charging said photosensitive member;
- exposing means for exposing said photosensitive member charged by said charging means so as to form a latent image on said photosensitive member;
- developing means for developing a latent image formed on said photosensitive member with toner;
- transferring means for transferring the toner image from the photosensitive member to a recording material;
- and
- light irradiating means for irradiating light on said photosensitive member to eliminate a light memory of said photosensitive member,
- wherein said charging means, said exposing means, said developing means, and said transferring means operate for an image forming operation, and
- wherein, before an image forming operation, said light irradiating means irradiates said photosensitive member with an amount of light larger than an amount of light in the image forming operation, in response to a turning-on of a power source of the image forming apparatus.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a photosensitive member;
- charging means for charging said photosensitive member;
- exposing means for exposing said photosensitive member charged by said charging means so as to form a latent image on said photosensitive member;
- developing means for developing a latent image formed on said photosensitive member with toner;
- transferring means for transferring the toner image from the photosensitive member to a recording material;
- and
- light irradiating means for irradiating light on said photosensitive member to eliminate a light memory of said photosensitive member;
- wherein said charging means, said exposing means, said developing means, and said transferring means operate for an image forming operation, and
- wherein, before an image forming operation, said light irradiating means irradiates said photosensitive member with an amount of light larger than an amount of light in the image forming operation, in response to receipt by the image forming apparatus of an instruction to start image forming.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.