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Image forming apparatus

US9971296B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateApr 14, 2016
Grant dateMay 15, 2018
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Expiry dateApr 14, 2036

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03G21/0094
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An image forming apparatus includes a photoreceptor, a charging unit, an exposing unit, a developing unit, a transfer unit, a lubricant supply unit, a cleaning unit and a lubricant removal unit. The lubricant supply unit supplies a lubricant to a surface of the photoreceptor and is disposed at a point which is an upstream side of the cleaning unit and a downstream side of the developing unit in a rotation direction of the photoreceptor. The lubricant removal unit removes the lubricant from the surface of the photoreceptor and is disposed at a point which is the downstream side of the cleaning unit and the upstream side of the developing unit in the rotation direction of the photoreceptor.

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