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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. 12, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 24, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Mitsutoshi Sakamoto, Osaka, JP;
Hiroshi Sakai, Sakai, JP;
Assignee:
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
399128 ; 399 50 ; 399 71 ;
Abstract
In an image forming method in which an image is formed through the charging, exposing, developing, transferring, and charge eliminating steps using an amorphous silicon photoreceptor having an amorphous silicon photosensitive layer, an image forming method according to the present invention is so adapted that letting t1 be a time period from the charging step to the developing step and t2 be a time period from the charge eliminating step to the charging step, the value of t2/t1 is not less than one.