发明名称 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CLEANING A LATENT IMAGE CARRIER
摘要 An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a latent image carrier, a conveyer system including nipping rollers to convey a sheet to vicinity of the latent image carrier, a switching system to switch operation modes between an image forming mode and a cleaning mode, and a cleaning controller to control a cleaning operation in the cleaning mode. The cleaning operation includes activating the conveyer system to convey a cleaner sheet at least until a front end reaches a position opposite from the latent image carrier and inactivating the conveyer system to stop the cleaner sheet thereat, a cleaning behavior, in which the latent image carrier is activated whilst the cleaner sheet is maintained nipped between nipping rollers in the conveyer system, a forwarding behavior to forward the cleaner sheet for a predetermined forwarding length, and repeating the cleaning behavior.
申请公布号 US2011103817(A1) 申请公布日期 2011.05.05
申请号 US20100891899 申请日期 2010.09.28
申请人 BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA 发明人 OKANO TETSUYA
分类号 G03G15/00 主分类号 G03G15/00
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