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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2012
Ken Yoshida, Kanagawa, JP;
Ken Yoshida, Kanagawa, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a transfer device separator that moves a transfer device between a contact position and a first isolation position within a shortened time. At the contact position, the transfer device contacts a toner image carrier. At the first isolation position, the transfer device is isolated from the toner image carrier with a first interval therebetween. A controller controls the transfer device separator to move the transfer device to the contact position as first to third toner images and a blank section between the first toner image and the second toner image carried by the toner image carrier pass through a transfer region and to the first isolation position as a toner patch section between the first toner image and the second toner image carried by the toner image carrier passes through the transfer region.