Patent ID: 6370347
Filing Date: 2002-04-09
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
A squeezing apparatus of a liquid electrophotographic color printer including a squeezing roll for squeezing out and removing a carrier from developer applied to an image area of a photosensitive medium, by passive-rotational movement of the squeezing roll, while being forced against the photosensitive medium traveling along a certain path, by a certain force, wherein the squeezing roll comprises:a squeezing roll section made of a material having a low peel force so that the image area of the photosensitive medium is not attracted onto the squeezing roll which comes into contact with the image area of the photosensitive medium; and a pair of friction roll sections, each made of a material having a high friction coefficient so that the friction roll sections do not slip with respect to the photosensitive medium, and coaxially disposed at both sides of the squeezing roll section, which comes in contact with a non-image area of the photosensitive medium.