Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Electrophotographic belt having grooves and electrophotographic image forming apparatus
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Application No.: US16855029Application Date: 2020-04-22
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Publication No.: US10859951B2Publication Date: 2020-12-08
- Inventor: Yasuhiro Matsuo , Kouichi Uchida , Masatsugu Toyonori
- 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: JP2019-086279 20190426
- Main IPC: G03G15/16
- IPC: G03G15/16

Abstract:
An electrophotographic belt that, despite long-term usage, is not susceptible to unevenness in cleaning by a cleaning blade in a width direction. The electrophotographic belt has an endless shape and has grooves on an outer circumferential surface thereof, the grooves each extending in a circumferential direction of the electrophotographic belt, when equally dividing a groove-formed area of the outer circumferential surface into three areas in a direction orthogonal to the circumferential direction of the electrophotographic belt, and calculating average values of depths of the grooves contained in the three areas respectively to obtain Dm, De1 and De2, where Dm is an average value of depths of the grooves in a central area, De1 and De2 are average values of depths of the grooves contained in both ends areas, Dm, De1 and De2 satisfy equations (1) and (2): Dm
Public/Granted literature
- US20200341408A1 ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC BELT AND ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2020-10-29
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