Image forming apparatus with a control that compensates for changing humidity

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9874830
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15270030

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An image forming apparatus has a control portion configured to control a charging bias to be applied to a charging member and a first exposure amount with respect to humidity inside an image forming apparatus and a thickness of a photosensitive layer of a photoreceptor, and the control portion controls the charging bias and the first exposure amount so that a potential difference between a non-image forming portion and the charging member increases as the humidity decreases, and decreases as the humidity increases.

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  • CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA

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Kawaguchi, Yuji Inagi, JP 66 396

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