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Apparatus of generating control signals for controlling an operation of an electrophotographic copying machine

US4072415A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateAug 26, 1976
Grant dateFeb 7, 1978
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Expiry dateAug 26, 1996

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03G21/145
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An apparatus of generating control signals for an electrophotographic copying machine which is provided with a disk fixed to a rotary shaft of a photosensitive drum and having through-holes formed therein, a light emitting device arranged to be opposed to a photosensitive device through the disk to form binary coded light signals and a decoder connected to the photosensitive device to decode the light signals therefrom. As the disk rotates together with the photosensitive drum, the photosensitive device sequentially senses a plurality of binary coded light signals to operate desired devices of the electrophotographic copying machine.

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