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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 22, 2014
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Yuji Kawaguchi, Tokyo, JP;
Shinji Katagiri, Yokohama, JP;
Masaru Ohno, Ebina, JP;
Satoshi Takami, Yokohama, JP;
Yoshikuni Ito, Tokyo, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
It has been difficult to ensure satisfactory secondary transfer performance while ensuring satisfactory primary transfer performance by passing a current in the circumferential direction of an intermediate transfer belt from a current supply member. To satisfy a relationship of Rv>Rs, where Rv is resistance in the thickness direction of an intermediate transfer belt and Rs is resistance in the circumferential direction of the intermediate transfer belt over the distance between an image carrier located most upstream and an image carrier located most downstream in the movement direction of the intermediate transfer belt.