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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2015
Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Ai Takagami, Osaka, JP;
Yosuke Saito, Osaka, JP;
Shigeki Tsukahara, Osaka, JP;
Masaki Kadota, Osaka, JP;
KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus () forms an image on a recording medium. The image forming apparatus () includes image forming units (). Of the image forming units (), one or more image forming units are intermediate image forming units, and one or more image forming units adjacent to a side of the intermediate image forming units and one or more image forming units adjacent to an opposite side of the intermediate image forming units are side image forming units. The image forming units () each include a photosensitive drum (), a light emitting element () performing static elimination on the photosensitive drum (), and a heating element () heating the photosensitive drum (). The heating elements () of the intermediate image forming units receive supply of electric power different in quantity from that of which supply the heating elements () the side image forming units receive.