Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus and image forming method
- Patent Title (中): 图像形成装置及图像形成方法
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Application No.: US13037822Application Date: 2011-03-01
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Publication No.: US08532537B2Publication Date: 2013-09-10
- Inventor: Tsutomu Sasaki , Naotaka Higuchi
- Applicant: Tsutomu Sasaki , Naotaka Higuchi
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
- Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Global IP Counselors, LLP
- Priority: JP2010-048607 20100305
- Main IPC: G03G15/10
- IPC: G03G15/10

Abstract:
The image forming apparatus includes a latent image carrier that holds a latent image thereon, a developer carrier that develops the latent image on the latent image carrier by using a liquid developer including a toner and a carrier liquid, a squeeze roller being in contact with the latent image carrier, that holds an image developed by the developer carrier, to squeeze the liquid developer on the latent image, and a control unit that applies a first bias to the squeeze roller, when a first position of the latent image carrier that does not hold the latent image is in contact with the squeeze roller, and that applies a second bias being different from the first bias to the squeeze roller, when a second position of the latent image carrier that holds the latent image is in contact with the squeeze roller.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110217083A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD Public/Granted day:2011-09-08
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