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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:
Jan. 03, 1995
Filed:
Jun. 08, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
355284 ; 355208 ; 355282 ;
Abstract
Disclosed is an image forming apparatus capable of preventing the offset phenomenon and an electrostatic adhesion jam. The surface of a photosensitive body is uniformly charged by a corona charge device, and then an image of the reflected light from an original is projected on the photosensitive body to obtain an electrostatic latent image. Subsequently, a developer develops the latent image into a visible image with toner. The visible image is, then, electrostatically transferred onto a transfer medium by a charge means. After that, static electricity in the transfer medium is removed by a separation means so as to be separated from the photosensitive body and to be sent to a fixing device.