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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 05, 2010
Masayuki Okada, Kanagawa, JP;
Yutaka Nakayama, Kanagawa, JP;
Kokichi Kasai, Kanagawa, JP;
Akio Fukuyama, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoshitaka Kuroda, Kanagawa, JP;
Tetsuya Kawatani, Kanagawa, JP;
Masayuki Okada, Kanagawa, JP;
Yutaka Nakayama, Kanagawa, JP;
Kokichi Kasai, Kanagawa, JP;
Akio Fukuyama, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoshitaka Kuroda, Kanagawa, JP;
Tetsuya Kawatani, Kanagawa, JP;
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes: a transfer belt having a surface onto which a toner image is transferred directly or through a transfer medium; plural image forming units that are aligned along a moving direction of the surface of the transfer belt and form the toner image; a support member that supports the transfer belt; a flow path forming member that forms a flow path along the moving direction of the surface of the transfer belt, has plural suction ports through which floating fine toner particles occurring in the plural image forming units are sucked into the flow path, and is disposed at the transfer belt side with respect to the support member; and an exhausting unit that sucks the floating fine toner particles through the suction ports into the flow path, and exhausts the sucked floating fine toner particles from the flow path.