Invention Grant
US09575437B2 Image forming apparatus having widthwise adjustment of endless belt
有权
具有环形带宽度调节的图像形成装置
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus having widthwise adjustment of endless belt
- Patent Title (中): 具有环形带宽度调节的图像形成装置
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Application No.: US14966488Application Date: 2015-12-11
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Publication No.: US09575437B2Publication Date: 2017-02-21
- Inventor: Katsuhiko Oba , Takeo Kawanami
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto
- Priority: JP2014-251319 20141211
- Main IPC: G03G15/16
- IPC: G03G15/16

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a toner image carrying drum; and an image transfer unit including an endless belt, first and second belt stretching rollers, and an adjusting unit for adjusting belt movement in a widthwise direction by inclining the first roller relative to the second roller. The adjusting unit includes a contacting member provided between the first roller and the drum and contacting with an inner surface of the belt. The contacting member contacts the inner surface of the belt at a position in a drum side across a common internal tangent between the drum and such a portion of a surface of the first roller as is moved closest to the drum by the adjusting unit, the common internal tangent being the one contacting a portion of the drum adjacent to a drum-belt contact position and contacting a portion of the first roller adjacent to a first-roller-belt contact position.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160170336A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2016-06-16
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