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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:
Apr. 11, 1995
Filed:
Jul. 14, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
Jun Asai, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
355274 ; 355277 ;
Abstract
The present invention provides an image forming apparatus with an image bearing member, an image forming device for forming a toner image on the image bearing member, and a transfer device adapted to transfer the toner image onto a transfer material at a transfer station and capable of contacting with a surface of the transfer material opposite to the image bearing member. A combined pressure force of the transfer material and transfer device against the image bearing member during a transferring operation is selected to be 0.2-8 grams per 1 cm in a longitudinal direction of the transfer device.