Image forming apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9158273-B2
Application number	US-201414150088-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 8, 2014
Priority date	May 27, 2010
Publication date	Oct 13, 2015
Grant date	Oct 13, 2015

Abstract

An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member for bearing an image, a developing device for developing with a toner an electrostatic image formed on the image bearing member, and a detecting portion for detecting environmental information. In addition, a storing portion stores the environmental information, and a controller controls an image forming condition on the basis of the environmental information detected in a last detection and current detection. The controller controls the image forming condition so that a change amount per unit time of the image forming condition when the developing device is driven is made larger than a change amount per unit time of the image forming condition when the developing device is stopped.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
an image bearing member for bearing an image;
a developing device for developing with a toner an electrostatic image formed on said image bearing member;
a detecting portion for detecting environmental information;
a storing portion for storing the environmental information; and
a controller for controlling an image forming condition on the basis of the environmental information detected in a last detection and current detection,
wherein said controller controls the image forming condition so that a change amount per unit time of the image forming condition when said developing device is driven is made larger than a change amount per unit time of the image forming condition when said developing device is stopped.

2. An image forming apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the environmental information is a temperature or a humidity.

3. An image forming apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the image forming condition is a potential difference between an image forming portion potential and a DC voltage applied to said developing device.

4. An image forming apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein said controller is capable of changing the image forming condition on the basis of a predetermined relational expression, and
wherein said controller changes the predetermined relational expression on the basis of a driving condition of said developing device.

5. An image forming apparatus comprising:
an image bearing member for bearing an image;
a developing device for developing with a toner an electrostatic image formed on said image bearing member;
a detecting portion for detecting environmental information;
a storing portion for storing the environmental information; and
a controller capable of controlling, on the basis of the environmental information detected in a last detection and current detection when the environmental information detected by said detecting portion is changed, an image forming condition so as to be gradually changed from the image forming condition set before the change in environmental information toward the image forming condition corresponding to the image forming condition after the change in environmental information,
wherein when the image forming condition is changed, said controller controls the image forming condition so that a change amount per unit time of the image forming condition when said developing device is driven is made larger than a change amount per unit time of the image forming condition when said developing device is stopped.

6. An image forming apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein the image forming condition is a potential difference between an image forming portion potential and a DC voltage applied to said developing device.

7. An image forming apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein said controller is capable of changing the image forming condition on the basis of a predetermined relational expression, and
wherein said controller changes the predetermined relational expression on the basis of a driving condition of said developing device.

8. An image forming apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein said developing device includes a stirring member for stirring a developer therein, and
wherein the driving information of said developing device is the driving information of said stirring member.

9. An image forming apparatus comprising:
an image bearing member for bearing an image;
a developing device for developing with a toner an electrostatic image formed on said image bearing member;
a detecting portion for detecting environmental information;
a storing portion for storing the environmental information; and
a controller capable of controlling, on the basis of the environmental information detected in a last detection and current detection when the environmental information detected by said detecting portion is changed, an image forming condition so as to be gradually changed from the image forming condition set before the change in environmental information toward the image forming condition corresponding to the image forming condition after the change in environmental information,
wherein when the image forming condition is changed, said controller controls, on the basis of the environmental information detected in the last detection and the current detection, an image forming condition so that a change amount per unit time of the image forming condition during an image forming operation is made larger than a change amount per unit time of the image forming condition from an end of a last image formation to start of a current image formation.

10. An image forming apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein the image forming condition is a potential difference between an image forming portion potential and a DC voltage applied to said developing device.

11. An image forming apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein said controller is capable of changing the image forming condition on the basis of a predetermined relational expression, and
wherein said controller changes the predetermined relational expression on the basis of a driving condition of said developing device.

12. An image forming apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein said developing device includes a stirring member for stirring a developer therein, and
wherein the driving information of said developing device is the driving information of said stirring member.

13. An image forming apparatus comprising:
an image bearing member for bearing an image;
a developing device for developing with a toner an electrostatic image formed on said image bearing member;
a detecting portion for detecting environmental information;
a storing portion for storing the environmental information; and
a controller for controlling an image forming condition on the basis of the environmental information detected at different times,
wherein said controller controls the image forming condition on the basis of humidity information changed with predetermined time constants from first humidity information obtained from first environmental information detected by said detecting portion in a last detection toward second humidity information obtained from second environmental information detected by said detecting portion in current detection, and
wherein the time constants when said developing device is driven are larger than the time constants when said developing device is not driven.

Assignees

• Canon Kk

Inventors

• Tanaka Shigeru

Classifications

• G03G21/203

  Humidity · CPC title

• G03G15/065 Primary

  Arrangements for controlling the potential of the developing electrode · CPC title

• G03G21/20 Primary

  Humidity or temperature control {also ozone evacuation; Internal apparatus environment control} · CPC title

• G03G15/50

  Machine control of apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern, e.g. regulating differents parts of the machine, multimode copiers, microprocessor control (sequencing control G03G21/14) · CPC title

• G03G15/16

  of a toner pattern, e.g. a powder pattern {, e.g. magnetic transfer} · CPC title