Image forming apparatus
AssigneeKonica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
InventorsNobuhiko OKANO, Hirotaka KABASHIMA, Shinichi TSUKAMURA
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Abstract
Disclosed is an image forming apparatus comprising: a developing device to house a toner and to form a toner image on an image carrier; a transfer belt to transfer the toner image formed on the image carrier to a sheet, the transfer belt comprising an elastic layer; and a blade to remove the toner remaining on the transfer belt after the toner image has been transferred, the blade being in contact with the transfer belt, wherein the transfer belt and the blade are configured so that a stiffness of the transfer belt is larger than a stiffness of the blade, in a temperature range which is no higher than a glass transition temperature of the toner.
Claims5
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a developing device to house a toner and to form a toner image on an image carrier;
- a transfer belt to transfer the toner image formed on the image carrier to a sheet, the transfer belt comprising an elastic layer;
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- a blade to remove the toner remaining on the transfer belt after the toner image has been transferred, the blade being in contact with the transfer belt, wherein
- the transfer belt and the blade are configured so that a stiffness of the transfer belt is larger than a stiffness of the blade, in a temperature range which is no higher than a glass transition temperature of the toner.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a developing device to house a toner and to form a toner image on an image carrier;
- a transfer roller to transfer the toner image formed on the image carrier to a sheet, the transfer roller comprising an elastic layer;
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- a blade to remove the toner remaining on the transfer roller after the toner image has been transferred, the blade being in contact with the transfer roller, wherein
- the transfer roller and the blade are configured so that a stiffness of the transfer roller is larger than a stiffness of the blade, in a temperature range which is no higher than a glass transition temperature of the toner.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.