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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:
Oct. 01, 1996
Filed:
Dec. 06, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
Takeshi Setoriyama, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G / ; G03G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
355202 ;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus for forming an image on a recording medium includes a feeding device for feeding the recording medium, an electrical equipment unit protruding outwardly in a horizontal direction from a conveying path and having a size greater than that of a maximum recordable recording medium fed by tile feeding device where the equipment unit is positioned below a mount portion of an image bearing member, the electrical equipment unit having a conductive member for contacting the image bearing member to ground the image bearing member, and a conduit, which is electrically connectable to the electrical equipment unit.