Electrophotographic apparatus
US12326689B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jul 29, 2022 |
| Grant date | Jun 10, 2025 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 1, 2043 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG03G15/75
- WIPO fieldOptics
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
Provided is an electrophotographic apparatus which uses a light emitting diode array as an exposure unit and exposes a photosensitive member to a quantity of light from the LED array whose average light quantity satisfies 0.8×E min or more and 1.1×E min or less on condition that a normalized radius of curvature R of a normalized graph derived from the E-V curve of the photosensitive member has a minimum value of 0.24 or less, and a light quantity at the minimum value of the normalized radius of curvature R is E min [μJ/cm2]. This electrophotographic apparatus prevents both the occurrence of image unevenness due to light quantity variation among the elements of the LED array and the generation of ghost images due to a rest potential.
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