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US 10,459,375 B2Granted
Image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYasutaka Yagi
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Abstract
The image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive member configured to bear a toner image, the photosensitive member having a surface layer containing acrylic resin, and an intermediate transfer member configured to secondarily transfer the toner image having been primarily transferred from the photosensitive member onto a transfer material, the intermediate transfer member having a surface layer containing acrylic resin and having a ten-point average roughness Rz set within a range of 0.35 μm≤Rz≤1.5 μm.
Claims11
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a plurality of photosensitive members configured to bear a toner image, each photosensitive member having a surface layer containing acrylic resin;
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- an intermediate transfer member configured to secondarily transfer the toner image having been primarily transferred from the plurality of photosensitive members onto a transfer material, the intermediate transfer member having a surface layer containing acrylic resin, wherein
- a ten-point average roughness Rz of the surface layer of the intermediate transfer member is larger than a ten-point average roughness Rz of the surface layer of the photosensitive member.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.