1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
a rotatable image bearing member;
a charging roller, contacting said image bearing member, for electrically charging said image bearing member;
a developing device for developing a latent image formed on said image bearing member into a developer image;
a cleaning device for removing a developer remaining on said image bearing member after the developer image is transferred from said image bearing member onto a developer image receiving member,
wherein said cleaning device includes a cleaning blade contacting said image bearing member and having a fixed end and a free end which is located upstream of the fixed end with respect to a rotational direction of said image bearing member; and
a control device for controlling a rotating operation of said image bearing member,
wherein said control device is capable of performing an operation for rotating said image bearing member, in a direction identical to a rotational direction of said image bearing member during image formation, effected by rotating said image bearing member after a lapse, without next instruction of image formation, of a predetermined period from a stop of rotation of said image bearing member made after completion of the image formation, and
wherein the predetermined period is longer with a larger number of sheets subjected to the image formation in an image forming job before the rotation of said image bearing member is stopped.
2. An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising environment detecting means for detecting an environment,
wherein the predetermined period is changed depending on the environment.
3. An apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the environment is a temperature and the predetermined period is made longer with an increasing temperature.
4. An apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the environment is a humidity and the predetermined period is made longer with an increasing humidity.
5. An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising storing means for storing an operation history,
wherein the predetermined period is made longer with an increasing operation history.
6. An image forming apparatus comprising:
a rotatable image bearing member;
a charging roller, contacting said image bearing member, for electrically charging said image bearing member;
a developing device for developing a latent image formed on said image bearing member into a developer image;
a cleaning device for removing a developer remaining on said image bearing member after the developer image is transferred from said image bearing member onto a developer image receiving member,
wherein said cleaning device includes a cleaning blade contacting said image bearing member and having a fixed end and a free end which is located upstream of the fixed end with respect to a rotational direction of said image bearing member; and
a control device for controlling a rotating operation of said image bearing member,
wherein said control device is capable of performing multiple times of: (1) a rotation of said image bearing member in a direction identical to a rotational direction of said image bearing member during image formation, effected by rotating said image bearing member, and (2) a stop of the rotation, in a period from a stop of rotation of said image bearing member made after completion of the image formation until a subsequent image forming job is input, and
wherein a number of the multiple times is larger with a larger number of sheets subjected to the image formation in an image forming job before the rotation of said image bearing member is stopped.
7. An apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising environment detecting means for detecting an environment,
wherein the number of the multiple times is changed depending on the environment.
8. An apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the environment is a temperature and the number of the multiple times is made larger with an increasing temperature.
9. An apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the environment is a humidity and the number of the multiple times is made larger with an increasing humidity.
10. An apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising storing means for storing an operation history,
wherein the number of the multiple times is made larger with an increasing operation history.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A plant of corn variety CV024124, wherein a sample of seed of corn variety CV024124 has been deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-11924.
2. A plant part of the plant of claim 1.
3. The plant part of claim 2, further defined as pollen, an ovule or a cell.
4. A seed of corn variety CV024124, wherein a sample of seed of corn variety CV024124 has been deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-11924.
5. The seed of claim 4, further comprising a transgene.
6. A corn plant that expresses all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of the corn variety CV024124, wherein a sample of seed of corn variety CV024124 has been deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-11924.
7. A composition comprising a seed of corn variety CV024124 comprised in plant seed growth media, wherein a sample of seed of corn variety CV024124 has been deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-11924.
8. The composition of claim 7, wherein the growth media is soil or a synthetic cultivation medium.
9. An F1 hybrid seed produced by crossing a plant of corn variety CV024124 according to claim 1 with a second, distinct corn plant.
10. The F1 hybrid seed of claim 9, wherein said plant of corn variety CV024124 comprises a transgene that is inherited by the seed.
11. An F1 hybrid plant grown from the seed of claim 9.
12. A plant produced by introducing a single locus conversion into corn variety CV024124, or a selfed progeny thereof, wherein the single locus was introduced into corn variety CV024124 by backcrossing or genetic transformation and wherein a sample of seed of corn variety CV024124 has been deposited under ATCC Accession No PTA-11924.
13. The plant of claim 12, wherein the single locus conversion comprises a transgene.
14. A seed that produces the plant of claim 12.
15. The seed of claim 14, wherein the single locus confers a trait selected from the group consisting of male sterility, herbicide tolerance, insect or pest resistance, disease resistance, modified fatty acid metabolism, abiotic stress resistance, altered seed amino acid composition, site-specific genetic recombination, and modified carbohydrate metabolism.
16. The seed of claim 15, wherein the herbicide tolerance trait is tolerance to an herbicide selected from the group consisting of glyphosate, sulfonylurea, imidazalinone, dicamba, glufosinate, phenoxy proprionic acid, cycloshexone, triazine, benzonitrile, PPO-inhibitor herbicides and broxynil.
17. A method of producing a seed of a progeny plant derived from the corn variety CV024124, the method comprising crossing a plant of the corn variety CV024124 with a corn plant of a second variety to produce at least a first seed, wherein a sample of seed of corn variety CV024124 has been deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-11924.
18. The method of claim 17, further comprising the steps of
(a) crossing a plant grown from said seed with itself or a second plant to produce a seed of a progeny plant of a subsequent generation;
(b) growing a progeny plant of a subsequent generation from said seed and crossing the progeny plant of a subsequent generation with itself or a second plant; and
(c) repeating steps (a) and (b) with sufficient inbreeding until a seed of an inbred corn plant derived from the corn variety CV024124 is produced.
19. The method of claim 18, further comprising crossing said inbred corn plant derived from the corn variety CV024124 with a corn plant of a different genotype to produce seed of a hybrid plant derived from the corn variety CV024124.
20. A method of producing a commodity plant product, the method comprising obtaining the plant of claim 11 or a part thereof and producing said commodity plant product therefrom.
21. The method of claim 20, wherein the commodity plant product is grain, starch, seed oil, corn syrup or protein.