Image forming apparatus having an electrically conductive member for wiping a light transmitting belt-like photosensitive body
AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
InventorKou Irobe
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus such as an electrophotographic copying machine uses a driven light-transmitting endless belt-like photosensitive body (belt). A charging unit charges the belt and a latent image is then formed on a front side of the belt. Thereafter, a toner image is developed on the belt for transfer to a sheet. Discharge and image erasing are provided on the back side of the belt. An electrically conductive wiping member contacts the back surface of the belt to clean contaminant therefrom.
Claims8
An image forming apparatus having a charging unit for charging a front surface of a photosensitive unit on which a latent image may be formed by irradiation after charging once a transferrable toner image may thereafter be developed, and further having a discharging unit for discharging the photosensitive unit and another unit for erasing unnecessary images and/or forming screen patterns for photographic reproduction by irradiating a beam from a back surface of the photosensitive body,
- a light-transmitting endless belt-like photosensitive body forming the photosensitive unit having charging and irradiation performed on a front surface thereof;
- and the apparatus comprising:
- an electrically conductive wiping member arranged inside the photosensitive body so that the wiping member comes in frictional contact with the back surface of the photosensitive body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.