Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus and light guide member
- Patent Title (中): 图像形成装置和导光构件
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Application No.: US14946650Application Date: 2015-11-19
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Publication No.: US09471026B2Publication Date: 2016-10-18
- Inventor: Yosuke Saito , Hironobu Oi , Jun Nakai , Yoshinori Nakamura
- Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka-shi
- Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Current Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka-shi
- Agency: Alleman Hall McCoy Russell & Tuttle LLP
- Priority: JP2014-236153 20141121
- Main IPC: G03G21/00
- IPC: G03G21/00 ; G03G21/08

Abstract:
A light guide member has a transmitting/reflecting portion transmitting and reflecting light that is emitted from a light source, to enter one end of the light guide member in a longitudinal direction, and be guided to the other end of the light guide member so that the light is applied to: a position between the developing roller and the transfer roller on the image carrier on a downstream side in the traveling direction of the transfer target member; and a position between the transfer roller and the cleaning portion on the image carrier on an upstream side in the traveling direction of the transfer target member. Furthermore, the light guide member has a convex portion having an arc-shaped cross section and being formed outward at a position opposing the transmitting/reflecting portion in a part of a predetermined specific region at one end or both ends in the longitudinal direction.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160147169A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND LIGHT GUIDE MEMBER Public/Granted day:2016-05-26
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