Image forming apparatus for forming an image on an image receiving medium carried by a conveyor belt
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorTuyoshi Todome
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image carriers on each of which an image is formed, a conveyor belt for carrying an image receiving medium, a driving roller on which the conveyor belt is mounted for driving the conveyor belt to convey the image receiving medium and a pressing roller for pressing the conveyor belt against the driving roller. The images formed on the image carriers are transferred seguentially to the image receiving medium conveyed by the conveyor belt. A tensioning member causes the conveyor belt to skid to maintain proper relative positioning of the components.
Claims5
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- means for forming images on a plurality of image carriers;
- a conveyor belt having a first peripheral edge and a second peripheral edge opposing the first peripheral edge for carrying an image receiving medium, the conveyor belt having a first length L1 at the first peripetal edge and a second length L2 at the second peripheral edge shorter than the first length L1;
- a plurality of rollers on which the conveyor belt is mounted for moving the conveyor belt to convey the image receiving medium sequentially to the image carriers;
- a tensioning means for giving a tension to the conveyor belt so as to skid the conveyor belt toward the second peripheral edge when the conveyor belt is moved by the rollers;
- a regulation member for regulating the skid of the conveyor belt;
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- means for transferring the images from the image carriers to the image receiving medium conveyed by the conveyor belt.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- means for forming images on a plurality of image carriers;
- a conveyor belt for carrying an image receiving medium;
- a plurality of rollers on which the conveyor belt is mounted for moving the conveyor belt to convey the image receiving medium sequentially to the image carriers, the rollers including a tensioning roller having a contact surface non-parallel to another roller for giving a tension to the conveyor belt so as to skid the conveyor belt toward one end of the rollers when the conveyor belt is moved;
- a regulation member for regulating the skid of the conveyor belt;
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- means for transferring the images from the image carriers to the image receiving medium conveyed by the conveyor belt.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.