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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2010
Takeshi Shintani, Kawasaki, JP;
Daisuke Tomita, Yokohama, JP;
Satoshi Hatori, Yokohama, JP;
Nobuo Kuwabara, Yokohama, JP;
Akio Kosuge, Yokohama, JP;
Shinichi Kawahara, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshinori Ozawa, Atsugi, JP;
Takeshi Shintani, Kawasaki, JP;
Daisuke Tomita, Yokohama, JP;
Satoshi Hatori, Yokohama, JP;
Nobuo Kuwabara, Yokohama, JP;
Akio Kosuge, Yokohama, JP;
Shinichi Kawahara, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshinori Ozawa, Atsugi, JP;
Ricoh Company, Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A lubricant applicator rotatable at multiple different linear velocities, including a rotatable lubricant applying member to scrape a lubricant and to apply the lubricant to a surface of an image carrier rotatable at multiple different linear velocities. Any given linear velocity of the lubricant applying member satisfies a relation of n/N>n/N> . . . n/N, where N, N, . . . N(N<N< . . . N) are the multiple different linear velocities of the image carrier, and n, n, . . . nare multiple linear velocities of the lubricant applying member corresponding to the multiple linear velocities of the image carrier.