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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:
Aug. 02, 2016

Filed:

Aug. 03, 2015
Applicant:

Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;

Inventor:

Kazuhisa Kondo, Osaka, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 11/00 (2006.01); B65H 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 11/0005 (2013.01); B65H 5/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

A curl eliminating device includes a decurl roller pair including a first roller and a second roller pressed to contact with an outer circumference surface of the first roller so as to correct curl of a recording medium, a cleaning member for cleaning the second roller, and a pressure contact mechanism. The first roller is an elastic roller including an elastic layer formed on the outer circumference surface and contacts with a non-image formed side of the recording medium. The second roller is a roller having a smaller diameter than the first roller and higher hardness than the first roller, and contacts with an image formed side of the recording medium. The pressure contact mechanism presses the cleaning member to contact with an outer circumference surface of the second roller from the side opposite to the first roller.


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