Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus including a dispersion unit
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Application No.: US16834394Application Date: 2020-03-30
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Publication No.: US11009813B2Publication Date: 2021-05-18
- Inventor: Kaoru Matsushita , Koichi Sato , Kazutoshi Sugitani , Masakazu Shirai , Hibiki Sasaki , Kiyotoshi Kaneyama
- Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Sughrue Mion, PLLC
- Priority: JPJP2019-165554 20190911
- Main IPC: G03G15/16
- IPC: G03G15/16

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes: an intermediate transfer belt that carries a toner image first transferred and is rotated to transport the toner image to a second transfer position; a second transfer belt that is rotated to come into contact with the intermediate transfer belt and pass through the second transfer position of the intermediate transfer belt; a plate-like cleaning unit that comes into contact with an outer circumferential surface of the second transfer belt to clean the outer circumferential surface; and a dispersion unit that comes into contact with a portion of the outer circumferential surface of the second transfer belt to disperse toner which passes through the portion on a downstream side of the cleaning unit and on an upstream side of the second transfer position.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210072670A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING A DISPERSION UNIT Public/Granted day:2021-03-11
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