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Color image forming apparatus

US5784666A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateDec 29, 1995
Grant dateJul 21, 1998
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Expiry dateDec 29, 2015

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03G2215/0497
  • WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

In a color image forming apparatus, wherein plural toner images are superimposed on the photoreceptor during a single rotation of the photoreceptor by a plurality of charging devices, image exposing means and developing means, each of the plurality of image exposing means comprises an array-shaped plural elements aligned in the axial direction of the photoreceptor and the color image forming apparatus further comprises heating means or heat absorbing means provided for each of the plurality of image exposing means and control means for controlling a temperature of each of the plurality of image exposing means independently of others by the heating means or the heat absorbing means.

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