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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 1983
Filed:
Nov. 17, 1980
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Olympus Optical Company Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
355 / ; 355 / ;
Abstract
An electrophotographic apparatus for producing one or more copied images of an original by forming an electrostatic latent image of the original on a photosensitive member whose width is narrower than that of a recording paper, developing the latent image, and transferring the developed image onto the recording paper, the apparatus including a device for removing electric charge from edge portions of the photosensitive member after said transferring but before next succeeding development of said latent image in the course of repeating developments and transferrings of one electrostatic latent image formed on said photosensitive member.