Image forming apparatus
US6477348B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 17, 2000 |
| Grant date | Nov 5, 2002 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 17, 2020 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG03G2215/0119
- WIPO fieldOptics
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
An image forming apparatus including a plurality of image bearing members for bearing respective color images, and a transfer material bearing member for bearing and conveying a transfer material, wherein, at transfer positions where the image bearing members are contacted with the transfer material bearing member, the images on the image bearing members are successively transferred electrostatically onto the transfer material born on the transfer material bearing member in a superimposed fashion, and wherein a transfer material conveying path defined by the transfer material bearing member including the transfer positions is protruded toward a side opposite to a side on which the image bearing members are provided.
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