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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:
Aug. 15, 2000
Filed:
Apr. 06, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Akihiro Kondo, Osaka, JP;
Teruyuki Miyamoto, Osaka, JP;
Assignee:
Mita Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
399302 ; 399308 ;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus having a developing mechanism for successively forming a plurality of color toner images on a photoreceptor; and an intermediate transfer member on which the plurality of color toner images are transferred from the photoreceptor in a superposed manner for primary transfer and from which the plurality of color toner images superposedly transferred thereon are transferred to a transfer sheet for secondary transfer. A circumferential ratio between the photoreceptor and the intermediate transfer member is 1:N (N is a non-integer).