Image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsShinya Suzuki, Haruhiko Omata
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Abstract
In an image forming apparatus wherein the slip of a transporting belt relative to a driving device due to a change in the surface state the inner surface of the transporting belt and a bad image can be reliably prevented, and having a photosensitive drum on the surface of which a toner image is formed, a transfer belt and a driving roller for driving the transfer belt, wherein the toner image formed on the surface of the photosensitive drum is transferred onto the transfer belt or a recording material borne on the transfer belt, an abrasive roller is provided at a position, in contact with a surface on which the driving roller abuts against the transfer belt.
Claims10
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a photosensitive member on a surface of which a toner image is to be formed;
- a transporting belt;
- driving means for driving said transporting belt, wherein the toner image formed on the surface of said photosensitive member is transferred onto said transporting belt or a recording material borne by said transporting belt;
- and
- abrading means provided in a position in which said abrading means can be brought into contact with a surface of said transporting belt against which said driving means abuts.
A sheet transporting apparatus comprising:
- a transporting belt for transporting a sheet;
- a driving rotary member for driving said transporting belt;
- and
- friction coefficient increasing means for increasing a coefficient of friction of said transporting belt relative to said driving rotary member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.