Patent ID: 6786590
Filing Date: 2004-09-07
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
A recording-medium conveying device conveying a recording medium to an image recording part, the recording medium being separated and fed from a recording-medium feeding device, the recording-medium conveying device comprising:a conveying belt wound around a driving roller and a driven roller so as to convey said recording medium to said image recording part, the conveying belt having an insulating layer formed at at least a side contacting said recording medium; and a belt charging unit provided in contact with said conveying belt and in a vicinity of a separating unit so as to charge said conveying belt with a positive charge and a negative charge alternately in a moving direction of said conveying belt by applying an AC bias to said conveying belt, wherein a first length of a path along which the recording medium travels after being separated by the separating unit and until the recording medium contacts the conveying belt is greater than a second length along the conveying belt from a position of the belt charging unit to a position at which the recording medium contacts the conveying belt.