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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:
Mar. 31, 1998
Filed:
Nov. 12, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Kazunobu Maekawa, Toyokawa, JP;
Futoshi Hamada, Toyokawa, JP;
Assignee:
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G / ; G03G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
399169 ; 399 50 ; 399128 ; 399303 ;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus in which a toner image formed on an image carrier is transferred onto paper held onto a transfer drum following which the paper is separated from the transfer drum, the image forming apparatus being equipped with a charger that charges a prescribed area of the image carrier before the image carrier is uniformly charged, a mode setting device that sets the image formation mode, and a control device that controls the output of the charger in accordance with the image formation mode set by the mode setting device.