Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Yuuhi Yui

Fumio Shimazu

Shirou Wakahara

Eiichi Kido

Hideo Yamasa

Hiromu Yoshimoto

Koichi Inui

An image forming apparatus provides a photosensitive body, a main charger, an exposing unit, developing unit and a contact-transfer charger. The main charger charges the photosensitive body with a predetermined electric potential. The exposing unit applies a laser beam on the surface of the photosensitive body to form an electric latent image. The developing unit develops the electrostatic latent image to form a toner image. The contact-transfer charger transfers the toner image on an image transfer paper. The image forming apparatus further provides controller for power supplies. The controller controls the power supplies after an image forming operation in a manner to enhance the electric potential of the photosensitive body to a high level by the main charger, drop the surface potential of the photosensitive body to a low level by the contact-transfer charger and then to cut off a bias voltage of the developing unit.

Electronic image forming apparatus with reduced residual carrier and

Electronic image forming apparatus

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Nabari, Japan

Yuuhi Yui