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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 24, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 03, 2009
Takayuki Ito, Nagoya, JP;
Shoichi Yoshikawa, Okazaki, JP;
Fuminori Moro, Hachioji, JP;
Noboru Oomoto, Toyokawa, JP;
Takayuki Ito, Nagoya, JP;
Shoichi Yoshikawa, Okazaki, JP;
Fuminori Moro, Hachioji, JP;
Noboru Oomoto, Toyokawa, JP;
Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc., Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image carrier rollers placed on an inner circumferential side of an annular conveying path so as to face the annular conveying path and so as to be juxtaposed in a sheet conveying direction along the annular conveying path. Opposed rollers are provided on the outer circumferential side of the annular conveying path. Imaging sections for forming intrinsic color images on surfaces of the respective image carrier rollers are provided. A sheet is introduced to the annular conveying path and is conveyed along the sheet conveying direction sequentially through nip sections of the rollers, while the images formed on the surfaces of the respective image carrier rollers by the imaging sections are transferred one by one onto the sheet. The sheet with the images transferred thereon is released from the annular conveying path.