Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.
Charge control device for an image forming apparatus which is dependent on ambient temperature
An image forming apparatus includes a voltage control circuit and a decision circuit. The voltage control circuit varies a voltage to be applied to a charge roller at preselected intervals in correspondence to the non-image area of a photoconductive element. A photosensor senses the reflection density of a particular control pattern formed on the drum 1 before and after the above voltage is varied. The voltage control circuit controls the voltage to be applied to the charge roller in accordance with a ratio between the resulting outputs of the photosensor. The decision circuit determines, at the start-up of the apparatus, whether or not to cause the voltage control circuit 31 to execute the voltage control in accordance with ambient temperature sensed by a temperature sensor. If the ambient temperature is higher than a reference temperature, the voltage control circuit is inhibited from executing the control.
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