Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus including transfer roller to transfer toner image from image bearing member to belt
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Application No.: US16823080Application Date: 2020-03-18
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Publication No.: US10935909B2Publication Date: 2021-03-02
- Inventor: Yuki Kurosu
- 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: JP2018-145134 20180801
- Main IPC: G03G15/16
- IPC: G03G15/16

Abstract:
A position of a stretch roller, where the stretch roller stretches an intermediate transfer belt upstream of and adjacently to a most upstream primary transfer roller in a rotational direction of the intermediate transfer belt, is apart from a photosensitive drum with respect to a primary transfer surface. Further, the most upstream primary transfer roller is larger in outside diameter than other primary transfer rollers, and the most upstream primary transfer roller has a transfer pressure larger than the transfer pressure of the other primary transfer rollers. This arrangement inhibits the most upstream primary transfer roller from deforming and a defective transfer due to waving of the intermediate transfer belt, while inhibiting an increase in size of an apparatus.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200218178A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2020-07-09
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