Granted Patent B2

US 12,344,498 · App. 18/596,937 · Granted Jul 1, 2025

Inventors: Naoto Hamabata (Yokohama, JP); Katsumi Tanaka (Yokohama, JP); Tomokazu Kurita (Yokohama, JP); Kiyotoshi Kaneyama (Ebina, JP); Taro Mitsui (Ebina, JP)

Assignee: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.

B65H37/00B65H29/14G03G15/6573G03G15/6576G03G15/6582B65H2301/5133G03G2221/00

Abstract

Claims (13)

1. An image forming system comprising:

an image forming apparatus configured to form an image on a recording medium;

a post-processing apparatus configured to perform first post-processing on the recording medium on which the image is formed by the image forming apparatus;

a relay apparatus transporting the recording medium on which the image is formed by the image forming apparatus to a subsequent stage; and

a charge eliminating apparatus configured to perform charge elimination on the recording medium that is charged, by reducing a charge amount of the charged recording medium,

wherein the charge eliminating apparatus is positioned at a stage that is after the relay apparatus and before the post-processing apparatus in a processing direction, and

wherein the charge eliminating apparatus includes a non-contact charge eliminator that generates ions, and has a function of eliminating electric charge without coming into contact with the recording medium by supplying the recording medium with the ions generated by the non-contact charge eliminator.

2. The image forming system according to claim 1 ,

wherein the charge eliminating apparatus further includes a contact charge eliminator, and the non-contact charge eliminator is positioned downstream of the contact charge eliminator.

3. The image forming system according to claim 2 ,

wherein the contact charge eliminator is a charge eliminating roller.

4. The image forming system according to claim 1 ,

wherein the non-contact charge eliminator generates the ions by performing corona discharge.

Priority Claims (2)

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