Image forming apparatus
AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
InventorsNobuo Hyakutake, Yuji Yokota, Yoshihiro Enomoto
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a control unit for forming an adsorb-charging region having a length along a paper transporting direction from a rear end of an image region on the recording paper adsorbed on the recording paper carrying/transporting member toward a backward direction by controlling operation-OFF timing of the adsorb-transferring charging means in such a manner that this operation-OFF timing is delayed from operation-OFF timing of the latent image forming unit, and this length of the adsorb-charging region becomes longer than, or equal to 1.5 mm.
Claims5
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- latent image forming means for forming an electrostatic latent image;
- an image carrier on which a toner image is formed by developing the latent image formed by said latent image forming means;
- a recording paper carrying/transporting member arranged adjacent to a transfer position of this image carrier, for transporting a recording paper to which the toner image on the image carrier is transferred, while adsorbing said recording paper;
- one adsorb-transferring charging means for performing an adsorb-charging operation for causing the recording paper to be adsorbed on said recording paper carrying/transporting member and a transfer-charging operation for transferring the toner image on the recording paper;
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- control means for controlling operation-OFF timing of said adsorb-transferring charging means so that the operation-OFF timing is delayed from operation-OFF timing of said latent image forming means to form an adsorb-charging region having a predetermined length along the paper transporting direction from a rear end of an image region on the recording paper adsorbed on said recording paper carrying/transporting member backwardly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.