摘要:
An image forming apparatus includes a transfer belt onto which a toner image formed on an outer surface of a photosensitive medium is transferred. The transfer belt moves along a predetermined closed path while being supported by a plurality of rollers. A protection unit protects the transfer belt by being attached to at least one of an inner surface and an outer surface of a non-transferring region of the transfer belt. A control unit controls the transfer belt so that an overlapping part where the protection unit is attached to the transfer belt, and a seam part where two ends of the transfer belt are connected stops at a predetermined location after printing. The image forming apparatus substantially prevents partial loss of an image by preventing wrinkles in the transfer belt.
摘要:
An transfer belt for use in an image forming apparatus that senses an initial printing position. The belt includes a PC alloy portion, protective tape, and an error prevention section. The PC alloy portion includes a position sensing hole extending therethrough and disposed proximate to an edge of the PC alloy portion. The PC alloy portion is usable to determine an initial printing position. The protective tape is attached to upper sides and lower sides of both edges of the PC alloy portion. The error prevention section is insertable into the position sensing hole and has a thickness substantially equivalent to the PC alloy located around the position sensing hole.
摘要:
A waste toner collecting device of an electrophotographic printer is provided. The device includes a housing to temporarily hold waste toner removed from an image holding body, an exhaust guide member including an exhaust hole through which the waste toner is exhausted, an opening and closing unit to open and close the exhaust hole, an inlet guide member having an inlet path to connect the exhaust hole to an inlet of a waste toner collection tank, and an elastic member which elastically supports the inlet guide member so that a gap between the exhaust hole and an inlet side of the inlet path is closely maintained when the exhaust guide member ascends and descends.
摘要:
A device to prevent breakaway of a transfer belt and a transfer unit equipped with the same. A device to prevent breakaway includes rib members each provided along opposite longitudinal edges of the inner surface of the transfer belt, and guide members each provided at one of opposite ends of a roller of the transfer unit, in order to guide the rib members. Each of the guide members is provided with a guide projection that is in contact with one of the rib members.
摘要:
An apparatus for discharging waste toner, including a housing temporarily storing waste toner separated from a surface of a photosensitive medium; a waste toner discharge port formed at a bottom of the housing; a shutter rotatably disposed at a side of the housing to open and cover the waste toner discharge port; a pinion gear to rotate the shutter; and a fixed gear, disposed on a frame to which the housing is mounted, engaging the pinion gear, the pinion gear rotating along the fixed gear when the housing is mounted to the frame, to rotate the shutter away from the waste toner discharge port. The shutter includes a latch to hold the shutter in place when the shutter covers the waste toner discharge port.
摘要:
A printing method and apparatus clamps a sheet of printing paper at a first position of a drum supplied with the printing paper. The printing paper is released from a clamped state at a second position just in front of an initial printing position. While unclamped, the leading edge of the printing paper is transferred to the initial printing position, so that printing is started from the leading edge and the printing paper is again clamped at a third position which is located beyond the initial printing position. Therefore, printing is performed from the leading edge of the printing paper, which results in printing without any margins. Also, a plate spring presses the printing paper toward the drum just in front of the printing position where the print head, applies pressure for printing. The plate spring elastically applies pressure to the printing paper to transfer the printing paper to the printing position while in contact with the drum.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus includes a first belt roller which has a first roller shaft, a second belt roller which is disposed parallel with the first roller shaft and slidingly approaches and departs from the first roller shaft, and has a second roller shaft, a belt which is driven in circulation by the first belt roller and the second belt roller, an elastic tension member which elastically pushes the second belt roller to be separated from the first belt roller and a belt cleaning unit which is supported by the second roller shaft and is movable between a cleaning position contacting a surface of the belt and a stand-by position departed from the surface of the belt.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus includes a transfer belt having a light penetrating portion formed at one side of an edge portion of the transfer belt, a protection tape adhered to both sides of the edge portion to cover the light penetrating portion, and a guide member attached to one side of the protection tape. A plurality of rotation rollers drive the transfer belt in a caterpillar-type manner and include a guide groove formed at both ends of each rotation roller such that the guide member is inserted therein. A sensing body receives one end of the transfer belt to be positioned therein. A first sensing element and a second sensing element are disposed at both sides of the transfer belt such that a second distance from a transfer surface of the transfer belt to the second sensing element is longer than a first distance from the other surface of the transfer belt to the first sensing element.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus capable of preventing meandering of a transfer belt. The image forming apparatus includes a main body, including an image forming unit; and a transfer device to transfer an image formed by the image forming unit to a printing medium. The transfer device includes a transfer belt; at least one pair of rollers to rotatably support the transfer belt; a supporting unit to rotatably support both ends of the pair of rollers; and an eccentric unit to movably support a first end of a first roller of the pair of rollers with respect to the supporting unit, the first end deviating from an axis of the first roller.
摘要:
In an electrostatic transfer type liquid electrophotographic printer, an applied pressure between each photosensitive drum and a first transfer roller corresponding to the photosensitive drum is reduced along a downstream of a traveling direction of a transfer belt to prevent the deterioration of a toner image generating due to the amount of a liquid carrier sequentially increased when toner image on the photosensitive drum for each color are transferred and overlapped onto the transfer belt.