EP 0833222 B1 20030806 - Image forming apparatus
Title (en)
Image forming apparatus
Title (de)
Bilderzeugungsgerät
Title (fr)
Appareil de formation d'image
Publication
Application
Priority
JP 25258596 A 19960925
Abstract (en)
[origin: EP0833222A2] In an image forming apparatus of transverse transfer type, toner images, carried by a toner-image carrying member extended by a plurality of rollers in a direction perpendicular to a direction of feed of printing paper, are transferred by a transfer opposed roller to the printing paper in a direction perpendicular to the direction of feed of the printing paper to be fixed. Among the rollers extending the toner image-carrying member, at least one of those rollers except for the transfer opposed roller, which come closest to the transfer opposed roller at starting and terminal ends of a longest path of movement of the transfer opposed roller, respectively, is provided at a position spaced from a transfer surface of the printing paper, to which the toner images are transferred, by a distance larger than a diameter of the transfer opposed roller. With this construction, a non-transfer region, in which the transfer opposed roller can not move, is reduced, and therefore a body of the image forming apparatus can be made smaller in size. <IMAGE>
IPC 1-7
IPC 8 full level
G03G 15/16 (2006.01)
CPC (source: EP)
G03G 15/167 (2013.01); G03G 2215/00974 (2013.01); G03G 2215/0116 (2013.01); G03G 2215/0187 (2013.01); G03G 2215/1685 (2013.01)
Designated contracting state (EPC)
DE GB
DOCDB simple family (publication)
EP 0833222 A2 19980401; EP 0833222 A3 19990310; EP 0833222 B1 20030806; DE 69723933 D1 20030911; DE 69723933 T2 20040715
DOCDB simple family (application)
EP 97300561 A 19970129; DE 69723933 T 19970129