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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2013
Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Teppei Shibuya, Osaka, JP;
Kyocera Document Solutions, Inc., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image forming units, an endless transfer belt, and a plurality of transfer rollers. Each image forming unit includes a photosensitive drum, a charging unit, a developing unit, and a static remover. The static remover emits charge-removing light to the circumferential surface of the photosensitive drum included in the image forming unit before a transfer to the circumferential surface is performed. The amount of pre-transfer charge-removing light emitted to the circumferential surface of a photosensitive drum by one static remover included in the plurality of image forming units is set to a value less than the amount of pre-transfer charge-removing light emitted to the circumferential surface of another photosensitive drum by another static remover located upstream of the one static remover in the movement direction of an intermediate transfer belt.