US 12,344,498 B2
Image forming system and charge eliminating apparatus
Naoto Hamabata, Yokohama (JP); Katsumi Tanaka, Yokohama (JP); Tomokazu Kurita, Yokohama (JP); Kiyotoshi Kaneyama, Ebina (JP); and Taro Mitsui, Ebina (JP)
Assigned to FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Mar. 6, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/596,937.
Application 18/596,937 is a continuation of application No. 17/405,078, filed on Aug. 18, 2021, granted, now 11,952,235.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-066480 (JP), filed on Apr. 9, 2021; and application No. 2021-066481 (JP), filed on Apr. 9, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0228220 A1, Jul. 11, 2024
Int. Cl. B65H 37/00 (2006.01); B65H 29/14 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01)
CPC B65H 37/00 (2013.01) [B65H 29/14 (2013.01); G03G 15/6573 (2013.01); G03G 15/6576 (2013.01); G03G 15/6582 (2013.01); B65H 2301/5133 (2013.01); G03G 2221/00 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
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.