IMAGE WRITING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND PITCH UNEVENNESS SUPPRESSING METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20180231911A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-08-16

    申请号:US15875697

    申请日:2018-01-19

    IPC分类号: B41J2/385

    摘要: Provided is an image writing device including a deflector having deflective reflection surfaces for deflecting light flux emitted from a light source and a scanning imaging optical system that condenses the light flux as a light spot on a scanned surface of a latent image carrier, and performing optical scanning on the scanned surface at a constant speed, the image writing device further including: a surface detector that detects a deflective reflection surface that deflects the light flux; a storage that prestores a beam irradiation position in a sub scanning direction corresponding to each main image height on each of the deflective reflection surfaces; and a hardware processor that controls, on the basis of a beam irradiation position in the sub scanning direction corresponding to each main image height on the deflective reflection surface a light quantity of the light flux to be irradiated to the beam irradiation position.

    IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING TWO PRINT HEAD MOUNTING SPACES

    公开(公告)号:US20180210367A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-07-26

    申请号:US15867644

    申请日:2018-01-10

    申请人: AVISION INC.

    发明人: CHUANG-HUA CHUEH

    IPC分类号: B41J2/385

    CPC分类号: G03G21/1666 G03G2221/1636

    摘要: An image forming apparatus includes a housing, a drum, a toner processing module and a first mounting space. The drum is disposed in the housing. The toner processing module supplies toners to the drum. The first mounting space accommodates a first print head. The first print head provides a light ray to perform a writing operation on the drum. When the first print head is present, the light ray of the first print head disposed in the first mounting space passes through an optical channel of the toner processing module to perform the writing operation on the drum. Thus, the optimum configurations of the print head and the drum can be achieved, to effectively reduce a size of the image forming apparatus and satisfy diversified requirements without spending a high cost.

    Image Forming Apparatus, Drum Unit, And Manufacturing Method For the Image Forming Apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US20180173132A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-06-21

    申请号:US15843038

    申请日:2017-12-15

    IPC分类号: B41J2/385

    摘要: An image forming apparatus, having a photosensitive drum assembly, an exposure head, and a bearing, is provided. The photosensitive drum assembly includes a photosensitive drum and a flange disposed at an end of the photosensitive drum in an axial direction of an axis of the photosensitive drum. The flange contacts an inner surface of the photosensitive drum. The exposure head includes a plurality of light emitters aligned along the axial direction of the photosensitive drum, a lens array focusing light from the light emitters on the photosensitive drum, and a head frame to support the light emitters and the lens array. The bearing has a first contact face to contact the exposure head to define a distance between the lens array and the photosensitive drum along a direction of an optical axis of the light.

    IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    15.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180157189A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-06-07

    申请号:US15824307

    申请日:2017-11-28

    发明人: Ryotaro Imine

    IPC分类号: B41J2/385

    摘要: An image forming apparatus, including: a light source; a deflection device; a lens configured to image a light beam emitted from the light source based on an image signal and deflected by the deflection device on a surface of a photosensitive member; and a controller configured to execute partial magnification correction for correcting a partial magnification as a deviation amount of a scanning speed of the light beam at a position different from a reference position in a main scanning direction with respect to a scanning speed at the reference position, wherein the controller is configured to: execute, when an image type of the image is a line image, the partial magnification correction on the image signal at a resolution less than one pixel; and execute, when the image type is a graphic image, the partial magnification correction on the image signal at a resolution in unit of one pixel.

    LIGHT BEAM SCANNING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE

    公开(公告)号:US20180113299A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-04-26

    申请号:US15729032

    申请日:2017-10-10

    发明人: Ryo HASEGAWA

    IPC分类号: B41J2/385 G02B26/12 G02B7/02

    摘要: A light beam scanning device deflecting, by using a rotating polygon mirror, a light beam emitted from a light source and condensing, by using a scanning lens, the deflected light beam onto a scanned surface. The light beam scanning device includes: a base made of a metal or a resin; a motor unit attached to the base and rotating the polygon mirror; a holding member holding the scanning lens; and one or more fixing members disposed between the base and the holding member, fixing the holding member to the base with the scanning lens spaced away from the base. In the light beam scanning device, the base has, between at least one of the fixing members and the motor unit, a penetrating hole or groove around which heat transmitted from the motor unit through the base to the fixing member passes.

    IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    18.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180101131A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-04-12

    申请号:US15720644

    申请日:2017-09-29

    IPC分类号: B41J2/385

    摘要: An image forming apparatus, including: a cartridge including a photosensitive drum and a regulation portion; a light emitting device configured to emit light from a light emission surface to the photosensitive drum; and a movement unit configured to reciprocate the light emitting device between an exposure position and a retracted position, wherein the regulation portion regulates a cleaning member, which includes a cleaning portion configured to rub and clean the light emission surface by a sliding movement of the cleaning member on the light emission surface of the light emitting device positioned at the retracted position so as to prevent the cleaning member from contacting the photosensitive drum and so as to bias the cleaning portion to prevent the cleaning portion from being separated from the light emission surface during the sliding movement of the cleaning member.

    IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM

    公开(公告)号:US20180074431A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-03-15

    申请号:US15701816

    申请日:2017-09-12

    发明人: Shoichi NOMURA

    IPC分类号: B41J2/385 G06F3/12 H04N1/00

    摘要: An image processing apparatus includes a beam corrector which corrects a gray level of each pixel in image data so as to reduce a density difference due to a misalignment in beam position of laser beams of a multibeam array. The beam corrector includes a calculator which detects an edge of an object between a pixel and adjacent pixels of the pixel in the image data and calculates an edge intensity of the edge. The calculator calculates a corrected gray level of the pixel from the calculated edge intensity and a correction value corresponding to a deviation in beam position of the laser beams emitted according to a gray level of the pixel.