Electrophotography – Image formation – Transfer
Reexamination Certificate
2006-06-13
2008-10-14
Ngo, Hoang (Department: 2852)
Electrophotography
Image formation
Transfer
Reexamination Certificate
active
07437109
ABSTRACT:
An image forming apparatus includes a housing including a cover configured to cover an opening provided in the housing, a transfer unit configured to move a loop-shaped moving member, a portion of which, across an entire width in a direction perpendicular to a moving direction thereof, being exposed through the opening when the cover is opened, and a sensor unit including a holding member configured to hold a plurality of optical sensors arranged in a direction perpendicular to the moving direction of the loop-shaped moving member and configured to detect detecting respective amounts of light at respective areas different from each other on the loop-shaped moving member, end portions of the sensor unit being fixed in the housing at end portions of the opening in a widthwise direction perpendicular to the moving direction of the loop-shaped moving member.
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patent: 11-327416 (1999-11-01), None
patent: 2001-100597 (2001-04-01), None
patent: 2002-131997 (2002-05-01), None
Ngo Hoang
Oblon & Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt P.C.
Ricoh Co. Ltd.
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