Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus including polishing roller
- Patent Title (中): 包括抛光辊的图像形成装置
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Application No.: US14758498Application Date: 2015-01-27
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Publication No.: US09541888B2Publication Date: 2017-01-10
- Inventor: Susumu Hanano
- Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka-shi
- Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Current Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka-shi
- Agency: Alleman Hall McCoy Russell & Tuttle LLP
- Priority: JP2014-037485 20140227
- International Application: PCT/JP2015/052116 WO 20150127
- International Announcement: WO2015/129364 WO 20150903
- Main IPC: G03G21/00
- IPC: G03G21/00 ; G03G21/10

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes: a cleaning portion configured to remove toner stuck to a surface of an image carrier; a polishing roller that is rotatable while being in contact with the image carrier; a guide portion disposed with a gap having a predetermined width from an outer circumferential surface of the polishing roller, and configured to guide the removed toner to pass below the outer circumferential surface of the polishing roller; opening portions each formed in a predetermined size at a position below the lower portion of the outer circumferential surface of the polishing roller in the guide portion; and a housing including a wall surface that defines, together with an end of the guide portion in a rotation direction of the polishing roller, a falling path through which the toner falls from the end, the housing storing the cleaning portion and the polishing roller.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160252870A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2016-09-01
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