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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 1991
Filed:
May. 30, 1990
Masanao Nagakura, Kawasaki, JP;
Masato Kawashima, Kawasaki, JP;
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A mechanical sheet path sensor used in an electrophotographic image forming apparatus for transcribing image onto a cut sheet by using a toner image formed on a rotating photosensitive drum, for sensing a cut sheet passing therethrough and is placed between a peel-off unit for peeling off the cut sheet after image transcription is performed by an image transcribing unit and a fixing unit for fixing the toner image transcribed on the cut sheet so that a distance from the peel-off unit to the sheet path sensor is shorter than a distance measured along the circumference of the drum from the image transcribing unit to a cleaning unit for cleaning the toner left on the drum after the image transcription. The sensor touches only a side zone where the toner image is forbidden to be transcribed, for avoiding the toner image, not fixed, on the cut sheet from damaging.