Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Kyouichi Takata

Yasutaka Maeda

Yukihiko Ueno

Tsuyoshi Miyamoto

Taisuke Kamimura

Hideyuki Nishimura

Kazuyuki Ohnishi

Yoichi Shimazawa

Masato Tokishige

Tokiyuki Okano

Kiyoshi Inamoto

Kazunori Sohda

Etsuzi Nukushina

Hiromi Washio

An electrophotographic image forming apparatus for transferring a visible toner image formed on a photoconductive body onto an intermediate transfer body primarily and transferring the toner image transferred on the intermediate body onto a paper secondarily is disclosed. In the electrophotographic image forming apparatus, the toner remaining on the photoconductive body is removed by a first cleaner blade after the primary transfer, and the toner remaining on the intermediate transfer body is removed by a second cleaner blade after the secondary transfer. A contact pressure of the second cleaner blade to be applied to the intermediate transfer body is set to be larger than a contact pressure of the first cleaner blade to be applied to the photoconductive body.

Image forming apparatus having intermediate transfer member

An electrophotographic apparatus having: a developer unit that has a magnetic developing roller for applying toner to electrostatic latent image areas formed on the surface of a photoconductor and that has a shutter which is closed to regulate the distribution of the toner to the photoconductor, a developing bias voltage for controlling adherence of the toner to the photoconductor being applied to said developer unit; and a bias voltage source for applying, when the shutter of the developer unit is closed, a developing bias voltage of the level between 0V and the developing bias voltage applied when the shutter is opened, thereby preventing blank spots from appearing in transferred images without increasing image-overtoning and also preventing damages from being caused to the surface of the fuser rollers of a fuser unit.

Electrophotographic apparatus with variable bias voltage

A copying apparatus having a prescanning function for obtaining density data to adjust copy parameters includes a correction function which eliminates the data obtained from a portion of a predetermined color, from the density data detected on a prescanning process. The density data can be restricted within a predetermined range. The predetermined range can be easily set by the user.

Copying apparatus

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Yamatokoriyama, Japan

Kyouichi Takata