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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. 25, 2003
Filed:
May. 03, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Saijiro Endo, Odawara, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 1/500 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 1/500 ;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus comprises a movable body, image forming structure for forming on the movable body a toner image which is transferred onto a recording material, toner image fixing structure for fixing the toner image on the recording material, and a detector for detecting a detection toner image formed on the movable body by the image forming structure. The detector detects the detection toner image at substantially the farthest location from the toner image fixing structure on a peripheral surface of the movable body.