Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus
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Application No.: US15458318Application Date: 2017-03-14
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Publication No.: US10322893B2Publication Date: 2019-06-18
- Inventor: Takao Nakajima
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Venable LLP
- Priority: JP2016-062831 20160325
- Main IPC: B65H5/02
- IPC: B65H5/02 ; G03G15/00 ; G03G15/16 ; G03G15/08

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, an endless belt and a plurality of stretching rollers. The stretching rollers includes a tiltable steering roller, a sliding member, a first stretching roller having a smallest diameter, and a second stretching roller having a largest diameter of the diameters. With respect to rotational axis directions of the stretching rollers, lengths of contact portions of the stretching rollers with the belt are shorter than a width of the belt, the length of the contact portion of the first stretching roller with the belt is a first length, the length of the contact portion of the second stretching roller with the belt is a second length shorter than the first length, and end positions of the contact portions of the first and second stretching rollers with respect to the rotational axis direction are different from each other.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170275111A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2017-09-28
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