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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. 10, 2002
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Yuko Tanaka, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 1/500 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 1/500 ;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member which bears a toner image, a transferring member which forms the image bearing member and a nip and transfers the toner image onto a transferring material, a bias applying unit for applying a transferring bias to the transferring member, the bias applying unit changing from the transferring bias to a low bias lower than the transferring bias at the rear end portion of the transferring material, and a control unit for controlling a position at which the transferring bias is changed to the low bias.