Toner transfer device
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsYasuyuki ISHII, Koichiro TAKASHIMA
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Abstract
Provided is a toner transfer device including: a carrier device that includes a surface on which a charged toner is carried; an electrode that attracts the toner from the surface of the carrier device; a conveyance path of a print medium which is formed between the carrier device and the electrode; and a power supply device that causes a potential difference to occur between the carrier device and the electrode to transfer the toner from the carrier device onto the print medium when the print medium is located in the conveyance path.
Claims15
A toner transfer device comprising:
- a carrier device that includes a surface which is formed by a conductive member and on which a charged toner is carried;
- an electrode that attracts the toner from the surface of the carrier device;
- a conveyance path of a print medium which is formed between the carrier device and the electrode;
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- a power supply device that causes a potential difference to occur between the carrier device and the electrode to transfer the toner from the carrier device onto the print medium when the print medium is located in the conveyance path.
An image forming system comprising:
- a photoconductor including a surface on which an electrostatic latent image is formed;
- a development device that develops the electrostatic latent image formed on the surface of the photoconductor to form a toner image;
- an image transfer device that transfers the toner image to a print medium;
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- a toner transfer device including a carrier that includes a surface which is formed by a conductive member and on which a charged coating toner is carried, an electrode that attracts the coating toner from the carrier, a conveyance path of the print medium which is formed between the carrier and the electrode, and a power supply device that causes a potential difference to occur between the carrier and the electrode to transfer the coating toner from the carrier onto the print medium from an upper side of the toner image when the print medium is located in the conveyance path.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.