Image formation apparatus
AssigneeKyocera Mita Corporation
InventorAkira Matayoshi
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Abstract
In a printer 10 provided with image formation units 60a to 60d arranged in tandem so as to be in contact with an intermediate transfer belt 52 that is stretched taut between a driving roller 53 and driven rollers 56a to 56c, the intermediate transfer belt 52 moves at speed Vb, the circumference of a photoconductive drum 61 of each of the image formation units 60a to 60d moves at speed Vd, and Vb and Vd are so set as to be Vb>Vd. When the printer 10 is activated, after the intermediate transfer belt 52 starts to rotate, the photoconductive drums 61 start to rotate one after the next starting with the one disposed most downstream along the rotation direction of the intermediate transfer belt 52.
Claims3
An image formation apparatus comprising:
- a belt that is stretched taut between a driving roller and at least one driven roller;
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- a plurality of image formation units that are arranged in tandem so as to be in contact with the belt,
- wherein, after the belt starts to rotate by the driving roller, photoconductive drums of the image formation units start to rotate one after a next starting with the photoconductive drum disposed most downstream along a rotation direction of the belt, and
- wherein a rotation speed of the belt is faster than a speed of a circumference of the photoconductive drum.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.