Cleaning device and image forming apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US11947304B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-02

    申请号:US17948546

    申请日:2022-09-20

    Abstract: A cleaning device includes: a cleaning brush that has bristles that rotate and contact a surface, to which toner has adhered, of a cleaning member to be cleaned, the cleaning brush removing the toner adhered to the surface of the cleaning member; a first contact member that contacts the bristles without a position of the first contact member relative to a position of the cleaning brush being changed; and a second contact member that contacts the bristles at a location downstream from the first contact member in a direction of rotation of the cleaning brush and without a position of the second contact member relative to the position of the cleaning brush being changed, and that is disposed on an extension line extended from a line between an axial center of the cleaning brush and a base of the bristles that move away from the first contact member.

    Belt driving device, transfer device, and image forming apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US11106159B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-08-31

    申请号:US16864285

    申请日:2020-05-01

    Abstract: A belt driving device includes plural rotating members around which a belt member extends, each rotating member rotating about a rotating shaft; and contact members disposed at both sides of the belt member in a width direction. The rotating members include a first rotating member, having a dimension less than a width of the belt member in a direction of the rotating shaft. Each contact member has a first contact point at which the contact member contacts the belt member and a second contact point closer to a corresponding one of the end portions in the width direction than the first contact point and at which the contact member contacts the belt member such that an angle between the contact member and the rotating shaft at the second contact point is greater than an angle between the contact member and the rotating shaft at the first contact point.

    Image forming apparatus
    3.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11914313B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-27

    申请号:US17369436

    申请日:2021-07-07

    Inventor: Daisuke Tanaka

    CPC classification number: G03G15/161 G03G15/162

    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a toner feed body that is an endless belt holding a toner image, or is a transfer member transferring a toner image to a recording medium nipped between the endless belt and the transfer member; an electric charge imparting member that is provided so as to face a surface of the toner feed body and increases an amount of electric charges of toner adhering to the surface of the toner feed body; and a toner attracting member that is provided at a more downstream part of the toner feed body than the electric charge imparting member in a feed direction of the toner feed body and attracts the toner by being applied with a voltage having a polarity opposite to a polarity of the toner adhering to the surface of the toner feed body.

    Image forming apparatus
    4.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11474456B1

    公开(公告)日:2022-10-18

    申请号:US17409995

    申请日:2021-08-24

    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a toner transport body that is an endless belt holding a toner image, or is a transfer member transferring the toner image to a recording medium nipped between the endless belt and the transfer member; a cleaning brush that has plural first bristle materials that rotate and come into contact with a surface of the toner transport body, and cleans a toner adhering to the surface of the toner transport body; and a removing brush that has plural second bristle materials in contact with the first bristle material of the cleaning brush and removes the toner adhering to the first bristle material.

    Image forming apparatus
    6.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US12298695B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-05-13

    申请号:US18177772

    申请日:2023-03-03

    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a conveyance section that sequentially conveys a plurality of recording media; a transfer member that transfers an image formed on an image carrier to each of the recording media conveyed by the conveyance section, with a potential difference; a detection section that detects an electrical characteristic value of the transfer member in transferring the image to each of the recording media; and a determination section that determines multi feeding of the recording media, by comparing an electrical characteristic value in transferring the image to each of the recording media with an electrical characteristic value in transferring the image to each of the recording media.

    IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    7.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230305470A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-09-28

    申请号:US18177772

    申请日:2023-03-03

    CPC classification number: G03G15/5062 G03G15/0194 G03G15/5016 G03G15/5037

    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a conveyance section that sequentially conveys a plurality of recording media; a transfer member that transfers an image formed on an image carrier to each of the recording media conveyed by the conveyance section, with a potential difference; a detection section that detects an electrical characteristic value of the transfer member in transferring the image to each of the recording media; and a determination section that determines multi feeding of the recording media, by comparing an electrical characteristic value in transferring the image to each of the recording media with an electrical characteristic value in transferring the image to each of the recording media.

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