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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2022
Applicant:
Konica Minolta, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Kei Yuasa, Sagamihara, JP;
Assignee:
KONICA MINOLTA, INC., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 11/00 (2006.01); G03G 15/16 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 11/0005 (2013.01); G03G 15/1695 (2013.01); G03G 15/6558 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes an image former and a flattener. The image former forms an image on a recording medium. The flattener is disposed upstream of the image former in a conveying direction of the recording medium, and flattens the recording medium before the image former forms the image on the recording medium.