Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus having transfer belt rollers of specific shapes
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Application No.: US14676035Application Date: 2015-04-01
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Publication No.: US09658577B2Publication Date: 2017-05-23
- Inventor: Yutaka Kakehi , Hiroshi Kokubo , Haruhiko Omata , Takashi Fujita , Hideaki Kosasa
- 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: JP2014-076284 20140402; JP2015-011256 20150123; JP2015-034920 20150225
- Main IPC: G03G15/16
- IPC: G03G15/16

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes: an image bearing member; a toner image forming unit; an endless transfer belt; a transfer roller urged from an inner peripheral surface of the transfer belt toward the image bearing member via the transfer belt; a feeding surface forming roller, provided downstream of the transfer roller with respect to a traveling direction of the transfer belt, having such a shape that a diameter at each of end portions is smaller than a diameter at a central portion with respect to a rotational axis direction; and a stretching roller, downstream of the feeding surface forming roller with respect to the traveling direction of the transfer belt, having such a shape that a diameter at each of end portions is larger than a diameter at a central portion with respect to the rotational axis direction.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150286166A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2015-10-08
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