Patent ID: 9057974
Filing Date: 2015-06-16
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus comprising: a light source configured to emit a first beam that exposes a rotating photosensitive member and emit a second beam that exposes the photosensitive member at a position different from that exposed by the first beam in a direction of rotation of the photosensitive member; a deflection unit configured to deflect the first and second beams emitted from said light source so that the first and second beams scan the photosensitive member; a lens configured to guide the first and second beams deflected by said deflection unit to the photosensitive member; an image forming unit configured to develop an electrostatic latent image formed on the photosensitive member by being exposed to the first and second beams into a toner image; and a control unit configured to control a light amount of the second beam based on an exposure position of the second beam in a main scanning direction of each of the first beam and the second beam scanning the photosensitive member to suppress a density of the toner image from changing, due to a distance between an exposure position of the first beam and an exposure position of the second beam varying according to a position in the main scanning direction.