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Electrophotographic apparatus

US6157789A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMar 18, 1999
Grant dateDec 5, 2000
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Expiry dateMar 18, 2019

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03G2215/00561
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An electrophotographic apparatus including a photosensitive member; a corona charger for charging a surface of the photosensitive member; a circuit-forming/chargeable powder supplying device for supplying circuit-forming/chargeable powder to a latent image pattern on the photosensitive member; a transferring device for transferring the circuit-forming/chargeable powder on the latent image pattern onto a ceramic green sheet; a flash lamp for fixing the circuit-forming/chargeable powder, transferred onto the ceramic green sheet, in order to form a circuit pattern (not shown) on the ceramic green sheet; and a circuit pattern forming position recognizing camera for detecting a circuit pattern forming position on the ceramic green sheet. In the electrophotographic apparatus, laser beams are used to form a predetermined latent image pattern (not shown) on a surface of the photosensitive member. Even when the electrophotographic apparatus is used for forming a circuit pattern on a print material by an electrophotographic method, the problem that a circuit pattern forming position shifts does not occur.

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