Image forming apparatus with enhancing structure in cover

    公开(公告)号:US12117742B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-15

    申请号:US18047823

    申请日:2022-10-19

    IPC分类号: G03G15/04 G03G21/16

    摘要: An image forming apparatus, having a housing with an opening, an openable/closable cover, a hinge supporting the openable/closable cover pivotably, LED units including LED heads, a first enhancing member, a second enhancing member, and a link member, is provided. The LED units are supported by the openable/closable cover. The first enhancing member, the second enhancing member, and the link member are attached to an inner surface of the openable/closable cover. The first enhancing member and the second enhancing member are located on one side and the other side, respectively, of the openable/closable cover in a first direction being parallel to a pivot axis of the hinge and extend in a second direction. The link member links the first enhancing member and the second enhancing member at a position farther from the hinge than one of the LED units located closest to the hinge in the second direction.

    IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    4.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240302771A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-12

    申请号:US18669028

    申请日:2024-05-20

    IPC分类号: G03G15/16 G03G15/00 G03G15/04

    摘要: An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a transfer member, an acquiring portion, an applying portion, and a controller. When a transfer voltage is subjected to constant-voltage control so that the transfer voltage applied to the transfer member by the applying portion is substantially constant, in a case that the transfer voltage, when a toner amount used for a toner image is a first toner amount, is a first voltage, the controller controls the applying portion so that the transfer voltage is a second voltage smaller lower in absolute value than the first voltage in a case that the toner amount is a second toner amount larger greater than the first toner amount. The acquiring portion acquires toner amount information on the toner amount for each toner image transferred onto a single recording material.

    LIGHT SCANNING APPARATUS
    6.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240264550A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-08

    申请号:US18430226

    申请日:2024-02-01

    IPC分类号: G03G15/041 G03G15/04

    摘要: Provided is an apparatus including: a deflecting unit configured to deflect a light flux from a light source to scan a scanned surface in a main scanning direction while rotating at a constant angular velocity; and an optical system configured to guide the deflected light flux onto the scanned surface, wherein, in a main scanning cross section including an optical axis of the optical system, a width of the light flux on a deflecting surface of the deflecting unit is larger than a width of the deflecting surface, wherein a scanning speed of the light flux on the scanned surface is highest at an on-axis image height, and wherein an absolute value of a scanning acceleration of the light flux on the scanned surface increases monotonically from the on-axis image height toward an outermost off-axis image height.

    Light emitting device and drawing apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US12038696B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-16

    申请号:US17875073

    申请日:2022-07-27

    IPC分类号: G03G15/04 G03G15/043

    摘要: A light emitting device includes: a base that extends in one direction and that is formed of a metal block; plural light emitters that are disposed on a front surface side of the base so as to be displaced from each other in the one direction and in each of which plural light sources that are arranged in the one direction are supported by a support that extends in the one direction; and a protective member that is provided at an end portion of the base in a direction intersecting the one direction, that is disposed on a lateral side of the plural light emitters so as to extend in the one direction, and that protects the plural light emitters from outside.

    Image forming apparatus
    8.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US12032327B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-09

    申请号:US18180212

    申请日:2023-03-08

    IPC分类号: G03G21/16 G03G15/04

    摘要: An image forming apparatus includes an exposure unit that exposes a photoconductor; and an exposure support member that includes a support portion that detachably supports the exposure unit and is moved integrally with the exposure unit in a first direction orthogonal to an axial direction of the photoconductor, wherein the exposure unit includes a first engagement portion that is formed on an opposing portion facing the support portion of the exposure support member in the first direction so as to protrude toward the exposure support member and further formed to extend in the axial direction of the photoconductor orthogonal to a protruding direction, the exposure support member includes a second engagement portion that is formed on the support portion facing the exposure unit at a position corresponding to the first engagement portion and engages with the first engagement portion.

    Image forming apparatus
    10.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11977341B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-07

    申请号:US17827027

    申请日:2022-05-27

    摘要: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet based on an image forming condition; an image reader configured to read an image for adjustment of the image forming condition, which is formed on the sheet; and a controller configured to control, in a case of a job for which printing of the image for adjustment is set, the image forming unit to form the image for adjustment on the sheet, and generate a correction value for the image forming condition based on a reading result of the image for adjustment, which has been obtained by the image reader, to thereby adjust the image forming condition based on the correction value.