Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus where primary transfer is performed with electric current flowing in circumferential direction of intermediate transfer belt
-
Application No.: US15663425Application Date: 2017-07-28
-
Publication No.: US10168645B2Publication Date: 2019-01-01
- Inventor: Tsuguhiro Yoshida , Masaru Shimura , Shinji Katagiri , Eiichi Hamana , Takahiro Ikeda , Takayuki Tanaka , Shuichi Tetsuno
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Canon U.S.A., Inc. IP Division
- Priority: JP2016-149387 20160729; JP2016-168583 20160830; JP2017-117141 20170614
- Main IPC: G03G15/16
- IPC: G03G15/16 ; G03G15/01 ; G03G15/20 ; G03G15/00
Abstract:
An intermediate transfer belt includes a base layer that has ionic conductivity and is a thickest layer out of multiple layers making up the intermediate transfer belt with respect to the thickness direction of the intermediate transfer belt, and an inner layer having electronic conductivity and a lower electrical resistance than the base layer.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180032001A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2018-02-01
Information query
