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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2012
Filed:
May. 20, 2010
Nobuo Hyakutake, Atsugi, JP;
Taku Fukuhara, Ebina, JP;
Nobuo Hyakutake, Atsugi, JP;
Taku Fukuhara, Ebina, JP;
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming device includes: image forming sections that form toner images with charged toners of respective colors on respective surfaces of image retainers; a transfer accepting body to whose surface the toner images are transferred electrostatically; transfer members that transfer the toner images to the transfer accepting body; a first charge applying section that switches, according to an instruction, between a first mode of applying the charge to all the transfer members and a second mode of applying the charge to apart of the transfer members; and a second charge applying section that applies, when the charge is applied in the second mode, a charge having the same polarity as that of the charged toners, to the transfer accepting body surface, at an applying point upstream from where the toner images are transferred to the transfer accepting body in a moving direction of the transfer accepting body.