Image forming apparatus
AssigneeKonica Minolta, Inc.
InventorTakashi Kawanago
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus forming an image on a recording medium, includes: a developing device that forms a toner image on an image carrier, a transfer device that transfers the toner image formed by the developing device to a recording medium at a transfer position, and a charge eliminator that is arranged upstream of the transfer position in a conveyance direction of the recording medium and eliminates charges of the recording medium in a non-contact manner, wherein the charge eliminator is an ionizer and is arranged at a position which is away by a predetermined distance from a conductor for moving ionic particles generated at the time of charge elimination.
Claims37
An image forming apparatus forming an image on a recording medium, comprising:
- a developing device that forms a toner image on an image carrier,
- a transfer device that transfers the toner image formed by the developing device to a recording medium at a transfer position, and
- a charge eliminator that is arranged upstream of the transfer position in a conveyance direction of the recording medium and eliminates charges of the recording medium in a non-contact manner,
- wherein the charge eliminator is an ionizer and is arranged at a position which is away by a predetermined distance from a conductor for moving ionic particles generated at the time of charge elimination.
An image forming apparatus forming an image on a recording medium, comprising:
- a developing device that forms a toner image on an image carrier with white toner and toner of colors other than white,
- a transfer device that transfers the toner image formed by the developing device to a recording medium at a transfer position, and
- a charge eliminator that is arranged upstream of the transfer position in a conveyance direction of the recording medium and eliminates charges of the recording medium in a non-contact manner.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.