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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:
Feb. 18, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 1/516 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 1/516 ;
Abstract
When it is judged that a sheet S is not an ordinary paper but a thick paper or an OHP film sheet, or that the arrival of the sheet S at a pair of timing rollers is delayed due to a slip for example beyond an allowable period of time, a controller judges that a condition for transferring or fixing an image on the sheet S is not met. As a result, a secondary transfer roller and a cleaner are retreated from an intermediate transfer belt , and in this state, the intermediate transfer belt carrying a toner image I thereon is made idle at least about one revolution without transferring the image I.