Toner concentration sensor
CA 1160278 A · Owner: Xerox Corporation · Inventors: Paraskevopoulos, Demetris E.
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The present invention is an apparatus for monitoring toner concentration on a photoreceptor surface. The apparatus includes a light emitting diode, the phototransistor, a beam splitter and a lens disposed between the, beam splitter and the photoreceptor surface to collimate the light beam between the lens and the photoreceptor surface. A portion of the light emitted from the LED is transmitted through the beam splitter and the lens to the photoreceptor surface. Collimated light is reflected from the photoreceptor surface back through the lens and reflected from the beam splitter to the phototransistor. The output signal from the phototransistor because of the incident and reflected …
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- Granted January 10, 1984. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended January 10, 2001.
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