Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus with developer collection
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Application No.: US17845073Application Date: 2022-06-21
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Publication No.: US11720046B2Publication Date: 2023-08-08
- Inventor: Kazuhiro Funatani , Shinsuke Kobayashi , Kensuke Umeda , Takanori Watanabe , Ai Suzuki
- 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: JP 20096395 2020.06.02
- Main IPC: G03G21/00
- IPC: G03G21/00 ; G03G21/10 ; G03G15/08 ; G03G15/01 ; G03G15/02

Abstract:
Provided are an image bearing member; a charging member that charges the image bearing member; an exposure unit that exposes the image bearing member; a developing unit that develops an electrostatic latent image as a developer image by supplying a developer, charged to regular polarity, to the image bearing member; a transfer member that transfers the developer image to a transfer-receiving body; and a collecting member that collects a deposit on the image bearing member downstream of a transfer portion of the image bearing member at which the developer image is transferred to the transfer-receiving body by the transfer member, and upstream of a charging portion of the image bearing member charged by the charging member, in a rotation direction of the image bearing member. After transfer of the developer image to the transfer-receiving body, the developer remaining on the image bearing member is collected by the developing unit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220326651A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2022-10-13
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