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US 6,295,428 B1Granted
Image forming apparatus carrying charged particles on resin sleeve
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHiroyuki Suzuki
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Abstract
What is provided is an image forming apparatus in which a particle carrier is not contaminated with toner. The image forming apparatus comprises an image carrier for carrying a toner image, and charging means for charging the image carrier, the charging means having charged particles to be brought into contact with the image carrier and particle carrier carrying the charged particles and having a resin layer containing a conductive material on its surface.
Claims7
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image carrier;
- charging means for charging said image carrier, said charging means charging at least in part using charging particles in contract with said image carrier during charging, said charging means having a particle carrier to carry the charging particles;
- an electrostatic image forming means for forming an electrostatic image on said image carrier charged by said charging means;
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- developing means for developing said electrostatic image on said image carrier by toner;
- wherein said particle carrier is formed with a surface resin layer containing a conductive material.
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