G03G 15/0189
Primary transfer to an intermediate transfer belt
Official title: {primary transfer to an intermediate transfer belt (G03G15/0184 takes precedence)}
G03G15/0189 (Primary transfer to an intermediate transfer belt) appears on 898 US grants and 1,102 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G03G- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Assignees
- 61
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Multiimage forming apparatus87US 4,903,067 ACanon Kabushiki Kaisha · 1990
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