Image forming system using a photosensitive medium
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMotoshi Ohno
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Abstract
An image forming system for forming images by using a pressure-sensitive photosensitive medium having a surface coated with a photosensitive material. The system includes an exposing device for exposing the surface of the photosensitive medium to a radiation and thereby forming a latent image thereon according to an amount of exposure of the medium to the radiation, a developing device having a first and a second member which cooperate with each other to press the exposed medium therebetween and thereby develop the latent image into a visible image, and a rotatably supported endless belt which passes between the second member of the developing device and the photosensitive medium, and thereby inhibit a direct contact of the second member with the surface of the photosensitive medium.
Claims9
An image forming system comprising:
- a pressure-sensitive photosensitive medium having a surface coated with a photosensitive material;
- exposing means for exposing said surface of said photosensitive medium to a radiation and thereby forming a latent image thereon according to an amount of exposure of the medium to said radiation;
- a developing device including a first and a second member which cooperate with each other to press the exposed medium therebetween and thereby develop said latent image into a visible image;
- an endless belt which passes between said second member of the developing device and said photosensitive medium, and thereby inhibit a direct contact of said second member with said surface of the photosensitive medium;
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- belt driving means for rotating said endless belt.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.