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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2023
Filed:
Jul. 21, 2022
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Koichi Taniguchi, Tokyo, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus employs a constitution in which, in a case that a relative position between an inner roller and an outer member with respect to a circumferential direction of the inner roller is changed in a period after a preceding recording material passes through a transfer portion and until a recording material subsequent to the preceding recording material reaches the transfer portion during execution of a job for forming and outputting images on a plurality of recording materials, a controller controls a position changing mechanism and a contact and separation mechanism so that a separating operation for separating the outer roller from a belt is performed and then the above-described relative position is changed.