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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2022
Filed:
Jul. 09, 2021
Applicant:
Konica Minolta, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Yuji Kamoda, Ibaraki, JP;
Assignee:
Konica Minolta, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/20 (2006.01); G03G 21/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/2025 (2013.01); G03G 21/0094 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes: a lubricant supplier that supplies a lubricant onto an image carrier; a fixing member that is rotatable, and comes into contact with the image carrier to fix the lubricant supplied onto the image carrier; and a hardware processor that controls rotation of the fixing member.