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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:
Sep. 05, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 27, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Takao Sameshima, Mishima, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
399110 ; 399116 ; 399121 ;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus has an image bearing member unit with a rotatable image bearing member for holding an image, and an intermediate transfer member unit with a rotatable intermediate transfer member unit to which image on the image bearing member is transferred, the image transferred to the intermediate transfer member unit being transferred to a transfer material so that, the image bearing member unit and intermediate transfer member unit are detachable from a main body of the image forming apparatus in a direction perpendicular to a rotational axis of the image bearing member and the intermediate transfer member unit.