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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2017
Applicant:
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Jin Iwasaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
FUJI XEROX CO., LTD., Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 21/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 21/0094 (2013.01); G03G 21/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes an image holder; a developing device that creates a toner image by developing a latent image held on the image holder; and an application member that scrapes a lubricant from a solid lubricant and applies the scraped lubricant onto the image holder, wherein a surface of the application member is a fabric member that holds toner.