Image forming apparatus and method of supplying power thereof
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorSung-kyu Choi
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a power supply configured to receive and convert an alternating current (AC) voltage into at least one direct current (DC) voltage, and output the same, a DC-DC converter configured to convert the at least one DC voltage into a driving voltage at a predetermined level, and a controller configured to be activated by the driving voltage, and control the power supply to turn on the image forming unit by supplying a first DC voltage to the image forming unit, and after the image forming unit has been turned on, supplying a second DC voltage at a higher level than a level of the first DC voltage to the image forming unit.
Claims10
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- an image forming unit;
- a power supply configured to receive an alternating current (AC) voltage and including a transformer that converts the received AC voltage into at least one direct current (DC) voltage, and output the same;
- a DC-DC converter configured to receive the outputted at least one DC voltage from the power supply including a transformer that converts the received DC voltage of a first level into a DC driving voltage at a predetermined second level that is different than the second level and output the converted DC voltage;
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- a controller that is configured to be activated by a DC driving voltage of a certain level, to receive the DC driving voltage output from the DC-DC converter, and control the power supply to turn on the image forming unit by supplying a first DC voltage to the image forming unit, and after the image forming unit has been turned on, supplying a second DC voltage at a higher level than a level of the first DC voltage to the image forming unit,
- wherein in response to a mode of the image forming apparatus being changed to a power saving mode, the controller turns off the image forming unit, and in response to the mode of the image forming apparatus being changed to an activation mode, the controller controls the power supply to turn on the image forming unit by supplying the first DC voltage to the image forming unit, and after the image forming unit has been turned on and a potential difference between both ends of a capacitor connected in parallel with the image forming unit has become equal to a predetermined voltage level, supplying the second DC voltage to the image forming unit.
A method of supplying power of an image forming apparatus, comprising:
- receiving and converting an alternating current (AC) voltage into at least one direct current (DC) voltage and outputting the at least one DC voltage;
- converting one of the at least one outputted DC voltage into a DC driving voltage at a predetermined level and outputting the converted DC driving voltage;
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- activating a controller of the image forming apparatus by using the outputted DC driving voltage, turning on an image forming unit of the image forming apparatus by supplying a first DC voltage to the image forming unit, and after the image forming unit has been turned on, supplying a second DC voltage at a higher level than a level of the first DC voltage to the image forming unit,
- wherein the supplying the second DC voltage at the higher level than the level of the first DC voltage to the image forming unit comprises:
- measuring a potential difference between both ends of a capacitor, connected in parallel with the image forming unit, after the image forming unit has been turned on, and
- supplying the second DC voltage to the image forming unit in response to the potential difference between both ends of the capacitor having become equal to a predetermined voltage level.
A non-transitory computer readable recording medium including a program to execute a method of supplying power of an image forming apparatus on a computer, the method comprising:
- receiving and converting an alternating current (AC) voltage into at least one direct current (DC) voltage and outputting the at least one DC voltage;
- converting one of the at least one outputted DC voltage into a DC driving voltage at a predetermined level and outputting the converted DC driving voltage;
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- activating a controller of the image forming apparatus by using the outputted DC driving voltage, turning on an image forming unit of the image forming apparatus by supplying a first DC voltage to the image forming unit, and after the image forming unit has been turned on, supplying a second DC voltage at a higher level than a level of the first DC voltage to the image forming unit,
- wherein the supplying the second DC voltage at the higher level than the level of the first DC voltage to the image forming unit comprises:
- measuring a potential difference between both ends of a capacitor, connected in parallel with the image forming unit, after the image forming unit has been turned on, and
- supplying the second DC voltage to the image forming unit in response to the potential difference between both ends of the capacitor having become equal to a predetermined voltage level.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.