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US 2003/0113141 A1Published application
Image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHisahiro Saito, Yasuo Yoda, Kenichi Iida
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AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHisahiro Saito, Yasuo Yoda, Kenichi Iida
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An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing belt; a supporting roller for supporting the image bearing belt; a transfer roller for forming a nip with the image bearing belt, wherein an image is transferred from the image bearing belt onto a transfer material at the nip by applying a voltage to set transfer roller; wherein the nip has a first nip portion where the transfer roller is contacted to the image bearing belt without being backed up by the supporting roller, and a second nip portion where the transfer roller is contacted to set image bearing belt by being backed up by the supporting roller, the first nip portion being upstream of the second nip portion; and a regulating member for regulating a discharging the direction of the transfer material to be discharged from the nip.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
An apparatus according to claim 6, wherein a distance a center of said nip and a regulating position of said regulating member is 17-18 mm.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.