Claims
- 1. A digital image forming equipment in which an image is formed by reflecting and scanning laser light emitted from a source of light onto a photo-sensitive body by means of a polygon mirror driven and rotated by a drive motor comprising:
- means for starting the rotation of a drive motor only when a power source of said image forming equipment is ON and a pre-operation which is operated before an image forming operation of the image forming equipment is performed, and
- means for stopping the rotation of the drive motor in a specified period of time after the termination of the image forming operation.
- 2. A digital image forming equipment in which image is formed by reflecting and scanning laser light emitted from a source of light onto a photo-sensitive body by means of a polygon mirror driven and rotated by a drive motor comprising;
- means for detecting the existence of an operator who comes near to the above image forming equipment,
- means for starting the rotation of the above drive motor according to the state of output signals from the above detecting means, and
- means for stopping the rotation of the drive motor in a specified period of time after the termination of image forming operation.
Priority Claims (2)
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63-295522 |
Nov 1988 |
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63-295523 |
Nov 1988 |
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Parent Case Info
This is a continuation of application Ser. No. 438,347, filed Nov. 16, 1989 now abandoned.
US Referenced Citations (2)
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4647946 |
Inuyama |
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4933772 |
Ikenoue |
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Continuations (1)
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