Patent ID: 6917768
Filing Date: 2005-07-12
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. An image forming device comprising: means for storing a toner; means for detecting an amount of toner stored in the means for storing; means for supporting an electrostatic latent image; means for supporting the toner supplied to the means for supporting an electrostatic latent image; means for supplying the toner in the means for storing to the means for supporting the toner; means for regulating a thickness of a layer of the toner supported by the means for supporting the toner; means for impressing a voltage to the means for supporting the toner, the means for supplying the toner and the means for regulating; and means for setting an impressed voltage level such that when the amount of toner in the means for storing is large, a difference between each potential of the means for supporting the toner, the means for supplying the toner and the means for regulating and a potential after the means for supporting an electrostatic latent image is exposed becomes large, and when the amount of toner in the means for storing is small, a difference between each potential of the means for supporting the toner, the means for supplying the toner and the means for regulating and a potential after the means for supporting an electrostatic latent image is exposed becomes small.