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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2001
Filed:
Feb. 24, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Tomio Hayano, Hitachi, JP;
Tetsuro Akasaki, Hitachinaka, JP;
Kazuhiro Wakamatsu, Hitachi, JP;
Isamu Terashima, Hitachi, JP;
Shoji Ukei, Hitachi, JP;
Assignee:
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 1/5043 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 1/5043 ;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus in which a distance along a photosensitive belt from a cleaning unit to an exposing position is set to be shorter than a distance from the rear end of a print image to the front end of the following print image, so that a latent image is not formed by an exposing unit when a joint of the photosensitive belt passes the cleaning unit.