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Color image forming apparatus

US5541722A · kind A · utility

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12Claims
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Filing dateMar 13, 1995
Grant dateJul 30, 1996
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Expiry dateMar 13, 2015

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03G2215/0497
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A color image forming apparatus in which a charging, imagewise exposing and developing operations are repeated onto an image forming drum to register different colored toner images thereon and thereby to transfer simultaneously the toner images onto a recording sheet, includes four imagewise exposing units which are disposed inside the image forming drum and are fixed in a main body of the image forming apparatus. Two each of the exposing units and the developing units are disposed respectively on both sides with predetermined angles with respect to a vertical line passing through the center of the image forming drum. The apparatus further includes a transferring device and a cleaning device are disposed respectively with predetermined angles on different one side of the vertical line below a horizontal line intersecting with the center of the image forming drum.

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