Patent · US Expired

Color image forming apparatus

US5198865A · kind A · utility

5Cited by
2References
8Claims
0Family size

Assignee

Inventors

Key dates

Filing dateNov 4, 1991
Grant dateMar 30, 1993
Priority date
Expiry dateNov 4, 2011

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N1/508
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A color copier which can be adopted to a printer operation for a peripheral imaging machine. The color copier forms plural color component toner layers on a photoreceptor layer by layer at each rotation of the photoreceptor. In the mode that the color copier is used as a printer, the copier makes two pages of each of the color component toner layers corresponding to an image at one rotation of a rotatable photoreceptor, when the size of the image is not more than one half the maximum size that can be formed by the copier.

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.