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7627263 Image forming apparatus including a cleaning web for removing residual toner  
The image forming apparatus of this invention includes an image bearing member which bears a toner image; a toner image forming device which forms a plurality of the toner images on the image...
7627261 Image forming apparatus and image forming method having control of cleaning depending on number of transferred images  
An image forming apparatus that forms an image using a plurality photoconductor bodies includes a cleanerless transfer belt configured to convey paper to the plurality of photoconductor bodies and...
7620339 Image forming apparatus including first and second cleaning members  
An image forming apparatus includes a first image forming station including an image bearing member, developing means for developing an electrostatic image formed on the image bearing member with...
7616914 Color image forming apparatus  
There is described a color image forming apparatus, which makes it possible to prevent the intermediate transfer belt from slacking. The apparatus includes a plurality of image bearing members; an...
7609993 Image forming apparatus that prevents developer from spilling  
An image forming apparatus, includes: a developer moving element that moves developer in order to transfer the developer onto a medium by rotating with the developer being borne on the developer...
7609992 Image forming apparatus with a pollution control unit  
An image forming apparatus that can prevent a transfer belt from being polluted by used developer on a belt cleaning member is disclosed. The apparatus includes at least one photoconductor on which...
7609990 Image forming apparatus that prevents toner from being jetted when cleaner blade or sealing member is separated from image carrier  
A first rotary image carrier is adapted to support a toner image obtained by developing an electrostatic latent image formed thereon. A second rotary image carrier is adapted to support, on a toner...
7606510 Image forming device including a cleaning device  
A laser printer is provided which includes a conveying belt, which is configured for circulating movement and which indirectly supports developer over a recording medium. Furthermore, a cleaning...
7596337 Cleaner unit and image forming apparatus including the same  
A cleaner unit includes a cleaner roller, a cleaner shaft, a blade, a toner container, and a toner squeeze pump. The cleaner roller collects toner adhered to a surface of a belt to a surface of the...
7596335 Field assisted cleaning system for a transfer belt and an image forming apparatus  
An image forming device is provided with a photoreceptor, a belt, a back member, a front member, and a voltage change device. The belt faces the photoreceptor. The back member is disposed on a back...
7593665 Image forming apparatus with cleaning unit  
There is described an image forming apparatus equipped with a cleaning unit to clean a belt-type transfer member. The cleaning unit includes: a conductive opposing roller that contacts an inner...
7593664 Image-forming device and belt unit having belt tension-adjusting mechanism  
A color laser printer includes a plurality of photosensitive drums and a paper-conveying belt disposed in confrontation with the photosensitive drums. The paper-conveying belt conveys a sheet of...
7590368 Image forming apparatus and method of cleaning intermediate transfer belt  
An image forming apparatus includes an intermediate transfer belt that has an elastic layer to which a toner image on an image carrier developed using a liquid developer is primarily transferred, a...
7561819 Belt cleaning device having cleaning blade for image forming apparatus  
A pressure release cam and a boomerang cam are provided. The pressure release cam is interlocked with a belt cleaner when the latter is turned, whereas the boomerang cam is interlocked with the...
7558522 Image forming apparatus having toner cleaner and toner cleaning method  
An image forming apparatus according to one embodiment of the invention includes an image carrier and a cleaning device for cleaning a developer left on a surface of the image carrier. Further, the...
7558497 Image forming apparatus and image forming method  
An image forming apparatus increases a primary-transfer pressure contact force at the times of primarily transferring black color to a first sheet and yellow and black colors to a second sheet or...
7555236 Image forming method and apparatus for effectively performing a cleaning operation of a transfer member  
An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member configured to bear an image on a surface thereof, a transfer unit configured to transfer the image formed on the surface of the image...
7551871 Power supply device and image forming apparatus using the same  
A power supply device includes a plurality of DC voltage generating circuits that share a voltage control circuit controlling a voltage to be supplied to a voltage stabilizing capacitor. The...
7548709 Transfer unit, transfer method, and image forming apparatus  
A transfer unit includes: an intermediate transfer belt that (i) holds a toner image that has been transferred from a photoreceptor drum and (ii) moves a surface holding the toner image; and a...
7542695 Image forming apparatus with cleaning device that does not cause excessive cutting and cleaning method  
In an image forming apparatus including a cleaning device having a cleaning blade arranged so as to make contact with and separate from a cleaned surface, an occurrence of excessive cutting when...
7532846 Treating transport mechanism in a printing press  
Treating a transport mechanism ( 5 ) for transporting print material ( 2 ) in a printing press ( 1 ) that uses toner in which oil-bearing substances ( 27 ) adhere to the transport mechanism ( 5 )....
7526221 Image forming apparatus having mechanism for changing pressing force between cleaning member and belt  
An image forming apparatus includes a belt, a cleaning member, a backup member, a pressing-force changing mechanism, and a control unit. The cleaning member is disposed in confrontation with the...
7519309 Image forming device  
A photosensitive drum 18 is provided to carry electrostatic latent images. Developers 23 K through 23 Y supply toner to the electrostatic latent images formed on the photosensitive drum 18 ....
7496306 Cleaning method for transfer device of image forming apparatus  
A constant current output is applied to a backup roller or a secondary transfer member, and a cleaning bias is controlled according to a measurement obtained by monitoring a voltage generated at...
7480471 Belt drive device and image forming apparatus having the same  
A belt drive device includes: a plurality of rollers; an endless belt placed on the rollers to be movable; a roller shaft shifting member disposed on at lease one end portion of a shaft of at least...
7480470 Image forming apparatus including a removing member for removing toner from a toner collecting member  
The image forming apparatus has an image bearing member, a detecting member, a toner image forming apparatus, a transfer member and a collecting member for collecting toner of a toner image for...
7474865 Image forming apparatus and method for separating contaminant from blade for cleaning transfer belt surface  
An image forming apparatus includes a transfer belt stretched around driving and blade opposing rollers. The blade opposing roller is biased in a bias direction away from the driving roller by a...
7471914 Cleaning unit for cleaning a conveyor belt  
A cleaning unit is provided for cleaning of a transport belt for transport of recording media in a electrographic printer or copying device. An abration element is positioned to avoid toner located...
7463855 Color image forming apparatus and image forming method  
A color image forming apparatus includes an image forming section that is configured to adopt an intermediate transfer system for three colors of cyan, magenta and yellow, and a direct transfer...
7460811 Image forming apparatus  
An image forming apparatus includes: an image bearing member which is rotated while bearing a toner image; an intermediate transfer belt onto which the toner image is primary-transferred from the...
7454153 Cleaning of contamination in a printer as a function of a register error  
Cleaning of contamination in a printer, especially contamination by the use of a fixing aid, in which the contamination is determined by evaluating the register of a print of the printing machine....
7447455 Color image forming apparatus and mono color printing method thereof  
Disclosed are a color image forming apparatus for mono color printing and a method thereof. The apparatus includes photoconductors, a charger, a development unit for forming a developer image on...
7444098 Image forming apparatus with cleaning unit  
There is described an image forming apparatus equipped with a cleaning unit to clean a belt-type transfer member. The cleaning unit includes: a conductive opposing roller that contacts an inner...
7440711 Image-forming apparatus having cleaning roller to remove toner from transfer roller that facilitates transferring toner image from image-bearing member to recording material  
An image-forming apparatus includes an image-bearing member supporting a toner image; a transfer roller that rotates in contact with the image-bearing member so as to transfer the toner image to a...
7433626 Image forming apparatus featuring different voltages for collecting and transferring toner from a cleaning member  
An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearing member for bearing a toner image, a toner image forming member for forming the toner image, a transfer member for transferring the...
7418218 Conductive backer brush for electrostatic brush cleaning of a belt without a ground layer  
A transfer cleaning station for an electrostatic marking system is provided. In this station, the upper surface of a movable transfer belt is cleaned by a rotating electrostatic cleaning brush...
7412187 Apparatus and method for cleaning the transfer roller of image forming apparatus  
An apparatus and method for cleaning a transfer roller of a wet-type image forming apparatus are provided. The method includes applying a measured voltage to the transfer roller; measuring a...
7412176 Method of processing an error of an image forming apparatus  
A method of processing an error of an image forming apparatus judges an error occurrence of the image forming apparatus, and if the error occurs, it stops the operation of a conveyer unit. After...
7406289 Image forming apparatus using a cleaning device and cleaning method thereof  
Disclosed is a cleaning device, a cleaning method and an image forming apparatus applied with the cleaning device and the cleaning method. The cleaning device includes a first cleaning member for...
7398043 Image forming apparatus free of defect due to substances bleeding from transferring member  
An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member for carrying a toner image; a toner image developing device for forming a toner image on the image bearing member; a transfer roller for...
7398032 Image forming apparatus featuring first and second cleaners operable on the basis of an interval of an image forming process during a continuous image forming process  
An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member on which an electrostatic image is formed; a development device which develops the electrostatic image formed on the image bearing...
7395022 Image forming apparatus with toner recovery system  
An image forming apparatus has an image carrier on which an electrostatic latent image is formed, a developing unit that develops the electrostatic latent image using a toner to form a toner image,...
7395005 Image forming apparatus with cleaning blade and residual toner storage compartment  
An image forming apparatus, comprising an image carrier to carry toner image formed based on image data, a cleaning blade to remove residual toner on the image carrier by being in contact with the...
7395004 Image forming apparatus featuring first and second toner removing sequence selected on the basis of a toner amount per unit area  
An image forming apparatus includes an executing portion, which executes a first removing sequence and a second removing sequence when removing a toner image borne on an intermediate transfer...
7392008 Electrophotographic image forming method and apparatus  
An image forming apparatus including an image bearing member; a charger for charging the image bearing member; a light irradiating device for irradiating the charged image bearing member to form an...
7392007 Intermediate transfer system and method for cleaning intermediate transfer belt  
A cleaning blade for removing residual toner left on the surface of an intermediate transfer belt after the second transfer is supported integrally with movement of a tension roller. In the case...
7391988 Image forming apparatus and belt device  
An image forming apparatus includes: a plurality of rollers including at least one drive roller to be rotatively driven; a belt passed around the plurality of rollers; and a press member which is...
7383001 Image forming method and apparatus capable of effectively positioning a cleaning unit  
An image forming apparatus and corresponding method, the apparatus including at least one image bearing member configured to bear an image, an intermediate transfer member configured to transfer...
7379691 Carrier remover device, a wet-type image forming apparatus having the same, and a method for removing carrier in wet-type image forming apparatus  
A carrier removing device of a wet-type image forming apparatus, according to an embodiment of the present invention, comprises an intermediate transfer medium and a vaporizing unit. The...
7379686 Image forming apparatus featuring first and second developer agent removing members  
An image forming apparatus including an image bearing member which bears developing-agent images; a first removing member which removes a developing agent from the image bearing member, wherein the...
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