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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.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2014

Filed:

Jul. 19, 2010
Applicants:

Alan Stirling Campbell, Lexington, KY (US);

David Brian Langer, Lexington, KY (US);

Peter Brown Pickett, Lexington, KY (US);

David Anthony Schneider, Lexington, KY (US);

Inventors:

Alan Stirling Campbell, Lexington, KY (US);

David Brian Langer, Lexington, KY (US);

Peter Brown Pickett, Lexington, KY (US);

David Anthony Schneider, Lexington, KY (US);

Assignee:

Lexmark International, Inc., Lexington, KY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of photoconductive drums, each photoconductive drum transferring a portion of a toner image to an intermediate transfer member. The photoconductive drums are individually rotated to a printing speed such that a downstream photoconductive drum starts rotating prior to an adjacent upstream photoconductive drum starts image transfer. Similarly, an upstream photoconductive drum starts deceleration when its following downstream station has transferred image.


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