Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Belt carrying device, intermediate transfer device, and image forming apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 皮带输送装置,中间转印装置和成像装置
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Application No.: US12369253Application Date: 2009-02-11
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Publication No.: US08032051B2Publication Date: 2011-10-04
- Inventor: Toshiki Takiguchi , Hideshi Izumi , Takahiko Yoshida , Hiroyuki Murai
- Applicant: Toshiki Takiguchi , Hideshi Izumi , Takahiko Yoshida , Hiroyuki Murai
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka-Shi, Osaka
- Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka-Shi, Osaka
- Agency: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.
- Priority: JP2008-039170 20080220
- Main IPC: G03G15/16
- IPC: G03G15/16 ; G03G15/01

Abstract:
A belt carrying device includes supporting rollers, an endless belt supported by the supporting rollers, and guiding members provided on the endless belt. The endless belt is rotated by rotation of the supporting rollers. An outer peripheral surface of the endless belt is in contact with a cleaning member. The guiding members are provided on those projecting areas of the endless belt, which project in an axial direction of the supporting rollers from both end surfaces of the supporting roller. A guiding member suppresses meandering of the endless belt by coming into contact with an end surface of the supporting roller. Formed on the end, surfaces of at least one of the supporting rollers are projecting sections and groove sections, which are rotated around a rotation axis of the at least one of the supporting rollers in response to rotation of the at least one of the supporting rollers.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090208241A1 BELT CARRYING DEVICE, INTERMEDIATE TRANSFER DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2009-08-20
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