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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2020
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Kaoru Matsushita, Kanagawa, JP;
Koichi Sato, Kanagawa, JP;
Kazutoshi Sugitani, Kanagawa, JP;
Masakazu Shirai, Kanagawa, JP;
Hibiki Sasaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Kiyotoshi Kaneyama, Kanagawa, JP;
FUJI XEROX CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
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.