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Shield for charging device in xerographic printing device having reduced rate of contamination

US7251439B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJul 29, 2005
Grant dateJul 31, 2007
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Expiry dateJul 29, 2025

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03G15/0291
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A xerographic printing device, including a charging device having a shield. In some embodiments of the shield of the charging device in the xerographic printing device, a plurality of holes are provided in an evenly spaced linear fashion extending nearly a full length of the charging device shield on a downstream process side of the charging device shield. The charge device can be a corotron, a dicorotron, a scorotron, a discorotron, a pin corotron, a pin scorotron, or any other known or later developed charging device of that type.

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