IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND DETERMINATION METHOD

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APP PUB NO 20230288863A1
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18117572

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An image forming apparatus includes: a gear provided on a transmission path of driving force from a drive unit to a photoreceptive drum; a first acquisition processor to acquire a charged amount of toner; a formation processor to form a toner image for detection based on an image for detection with density according to the charged amount of toner acquired by the first acquisition processor among a plurality of images for detection having different color from each other for every time when a specific formation timing arrives; a second acquisition processor to acquire a variation width of density in the toner image for detection formed by the formation processor; and a determination processor to determine a failure timing of the gear based on the variation width for each formation timing corresponding to any one of the plurality of images for detection.

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KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC1-2-28 TAMATSUKURI CHUO-KU OSAKA-SHI OSAKA 5408585 ?5408585

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FUJISHIMA, Masashi Osaka-shi, JP 39 153
KUBO, Norio Osaka-shi, JP 33 78
SUENAMI, Koji Osaka-shi, JP 27 74

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