Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus
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Application No.: US15703198Application Date: 2017-09-13
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Publication No.: US10261462B2Publication Date: 2019-04-16
- Inventor: Jun Asami , Toshiya Kaino , Ryuichi Umehara
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Venable LLP
- Priority: JP2016-196666 20161004
- Main IPC: G03G21/00
- IPC: G03G21/00 ; G03G15/06 ; G03G15/08 ; G03G15/16 ; G03G15/24

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a control unit that causes a supply operation to form a predetermined toner image and supplies toner of the predetermined toner image to a contact portion between a cleaning member and a photosensitive member at a non-image forming time. During at least a period in which toner of the predetermined toner image on the photosensitive member passes through a transfer unit during the supply operation, the control unit causes application of a pass-through voltage having the same polarity as a normal charge polarity of the toner and an absolute value that is less than an electric potential of a portion that is exposed by an exposure device of the photosensitive member, or having a reverse polarity that is reverse to the normal charge polarity of the toner to be applied from the transfer power supply to the transfer member.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180095385A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2018-04-05
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