Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus with transfer nip adjustment function
- Patent Title (中): 具有转印压区调整功能的成像设备
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Application No.: US13861110Application Date: 2013-04-11
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Publication No.: US08548345B2Publication Date: 2013-10-01
- Inventor: Ryuichi Minbe , Katsuya Kawagoe , Kenji Sengoku , Junpei Fujita , Osamu Ichihashi
- Applicant: Ryuichi Minbe , Katsuya Kawagoe , Kenji Sengoku , Junpei Fujita , Osamu Ichihashi
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2008-309357 20081204; JP2009-030032 20090212
- Main IPC: G03G15/16
- IPC: G03G15/16

Abstract:
A secondary transfer facing roller includes a roller part that has a through-hole penetrating in a rotary shaft line direction at a rotation center position, and a penetrating shaft member penetrating the through-hole of the roller part and spinning the roller part on a surface of the penetrating shaft member. Eccentric cams are fixed to both end regions that are not located in the roller part, so as to rotate integrally with the penetrating shaft member. A position regulating cam and an abutting roller form a gap between the intermediate transfer belt and the secondary transfer roller immediately before a transfer sheet enters a transfer nip part. While the gap is formed, current flows between the intermediate transfer belt and the secondary transfer roller via the position regulating cam and the abutting roller.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130223901A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS WITH TRANSFER NIP ADJUSTMENT FUNCTION Public/Granted day:2013-08-29
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