Abstract: An outer peripheral length of an intermediate transfer drum of a color laser beam printer is constituted in which a number of a beam detection signal obtained by one rotation of the transfer drum is formed as an integral number of a face number of a polygon mirror. A passing-through detection means detects the passing-through of a specified position mark on a photosensitive body belt and is provided on the photosensitive body drum at predetermined position. An image data requirement signal generating means controls a generating timing of an image data requirement signal for forming a toner image by the passing-through detection signal. A scanning line at a raster direction based on the beam detection signal after the transfer drum has rotated at one rotation returns and overlapped on a scanning line position formed on the first beam detection signal as a standard. A plural toner images having a different color each are formed on the transfer drum without color offset.

Abstract: Each of color toner images is formed on a photo-sensitive drum using a plural development units. An exposure process and a development process for a color image information are carried out repeatedly corresponding to a respective hue of the image information. The toner images of n colors are transferred to the drum by contacting a recording paper to the drum. A record mode is selected in accordance with a length in a peripheral direction of the drum of the image information against a peripheral length of the drum. When the length of the image information is longer than the peripheral length of the drum, N times transfer processes are selected as the record mode. Then the length of the image information is divided into N areas. The image information of n colors existing in every divided area is formed dividedly on the drum. The color image is recorded on a full length of the paper.

Abstract: A roller forms a curve in a sheet of recording paper to which a toner image, formed on the curved surface of a photosensitive drum, is transferred such that a transfer curve extends along the curved surface of a transfer drum. The roller is provided in a path for carrying the recording paper so as to be in contact with the transfer drum.

Abstract: A pixel signal which is sent together with an emphasis request signal and the like from a pixel information generating section to a scanning type image recording unit is reduced or enlarged by a fine adjusting section provided in the scanning type image recording unit and is used to modulate a laser beam. The scanning type image recording unit has an operation panel to generate a pixel reduction or enlargement request signal. The fine adjusting section enlarges or reduces the pixel signal in accordance with a request signal which is given from the operation panel.

Abstract: A high precision image recording apparatus includes an electrophotographic device having at least a photosensitive drum and an exposure unit, for forming a toner image on the surface of the photosensitive drum; a recording sheet feed/transport unit for feeding and transporting a recording sheet to which the toner image formed on the surface of the photosensitive drum is transferred; a transfer unit for transferring the toner image on the photosensitive drum to the recording sheet fed and transported by the recording sheet feed/transport unit; and a drive unit for driving the photosensitive drum and recording sheet feed/transport unit. The drive unit is provided with a motor coupled to the photosensitive drum via a rotation transmission mechanism having a speed reduction ratio of 1/integer number (inclusive of 1/1), and the exposure unit is provided with a recording start position control unit for starting recording image information from a predetermined reference position on the photosensitive drum.

Abstract: A laser beam printer operatively responsive to a printing signal fed from a host control unit includes a printing unit for executing a xerographic process, a laser beam scanning unit, a fusing unit, a process control unit for controlling said printing unit, the laser beam scanning unit, and the fusing unit, and a signal processing unit for receiving the printing signal from the host control unit. When the host control unit begins to supply a printing signal to the signal processing unit, the signal processing unit supplies a provisional start signal to the process control unit. Upon receiving the provisional start signal, the process control unit controls the printing unit, the scanning unit, and the fusing unit to bring them into a ready state.

Abstract: Disclosed in a history information providing device for use in a printer, such as a laser beam printer, having a print producing section, operation watching sensors and a programmable control section for controlling the print producing section. The history information providing device includes a non-volatile memory for taking-out the latest failure information such as the number of times of paper jam and the number of times of toner supply, and the latest maintenance information such as the total number of pages of printed paper and the total number of pages of printed paper by paper sizes, from the sensors and storing the latest failure and/or maintenance information therein. The device also includes a print-out instructing circuit for producing a print-out instruction to print out at least a part of the failure and/or maintenance information stored in the non-volatile memory and the secondary history information obtained from the failure and/or maintenance information.

Abstract: A control system for an illumination lamp installed in a building equipped with a door operation control apparatus. The system comprises a door opening and closing instructor, a control circuit responsive to an instruction signal from the instructor to produce a door control signal and a lamp control signal, a door driver responsive to the door control signal to drive the opening and closing of a door, an illumination lamp for illumination of the interior of the building, a detector for detecting the movement of a human body and producing an electric signal representative of the movement, and a circuit which is responsive to the lamp control signal and the electric signal to turn on the illumination lamp and keeps the illumination lamp turned on for a predetermined time extending from the termination of the lamp control signal and the electric signal.

Abstract: Disclosed is an exposure amount control device for a copying machine comprising an exposure amount control circuit for controlling an exposure amount by controlling light of the exposure lamp for illuminating an original document to be copied and a digital light control signal generator for supplying a digital light control signal of a variable duty factor to the exposure amount control circuit. The digital light control signal generator includes a light intensity increase/decrease setting circuit and an oscillator for generating an oscillation output of a variable oscillation period in accordance with a light intensity signal from the light intensity increase/decrease setting circuit. The oscillation output of the oscillator is converted to an on-off light signal, which is supplied to the exposure amount control circuit as the digital light control signal.

Abstract: A motor driving a garage door is controlled by a controller, and the rotation of the motor in the normal and reverse directions is normally controlled in response to an actuating signal applied to the controller from a main push button switch. In a specific-mode in which an actuating signal is applied to the controller from an emergency push button switch, a mat switch or a fire sensor, the latter signal has priority over the former signal, and the motor is driven to move the garage door to its full-open position.

Abstract: A main control circuit for controlling a door open-close drive motor and a lamp illuminating the interior of a garage is disposed in a body of a door operation control apparatus, and an interface circuit for applying control command signals to the main control circuit is connected by two signal conductors to a control box mounted on the wall of the garage. Signal voltages of a plurality of levels can be generated from the control box to be transmitted to the interface circuit by way of the two signal conductors, and the interface circuit discriminates the level of one of the signal voltage transmitted by way of the two signal conductors to apply a control command signal for controlling a controlled object corresponding to the discriminated voltage level.