Image forming apparatus capable of suppressing image defects caused by paper dust
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsAtsushi Toda, Hisashi Taniguchi, Bunro Noguchi, Shunsuke Matsushita
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive drum, a development roller configured to supply developer to the photosensitive drum, a transfer roller configured to transfer a developer image formed on the photosensitive drum to a recording material, and a cleaning roller being in contact with the photosensitive drum, configured to clean a part of the recording material adhered to the photosensitive drum, wherein the diameter of the transfer roller is greater than the diameter of the development roller and the diameter of the cleaning roller is greater than the diameter of the development roller.
Claims4
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a photosensitive drum;
- a development roller configured to supply developer to the photosensitive drum;
- a transfer roller configured to transfer a developer image formed on the photosensitive drum to a recording material;
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- a cleaning roller being in contact with the photosensitive drum, configured to clean a part of the recording material adhered to the photosensitive drum,
- wherein a diameter of the transfer roller is greater than a diameter of the development roller and a diameter of the cleaning roller is greater than the diameter of the development roller.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.