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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 19, 1995
Filed:
Jul. 11, 1994
Hiroaki Tsuchiya, Osaka, JP;
Tetsuro Tomoe, Osaka, JP;
Osamu Yoshimura, Osaka, JP;
Masami Fuchi, Osaka, JP;
Shinichi Tanaka, Osaka, JP;
Keiji Ban, Osaka, JP;
Mita Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An apparatus for conveying sheet members, equipped with a conveyer guide member that extends from the downstream side of a toner image-transfer position of a photosensitive drum toward a fixing unit and a grounding plate member that is disposed on the lower surface side of the conveyer guide member. The conveyer guide member is made of a material having an electric resistance not smaller than the electric resistance of the sheet member, and the grounding plate member is made of a material having an electric resistance smaller than the electric resistance of the conveyer guide member.