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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2013
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;
FUJI XEROX CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A transfer device includes an intermediate transfer belt that is stretched by multiple rollers, and transports a toner image on an outer peripheral surface, a second transfer member that performs second transfer that transfers the toner image to a recording medium at a second transfer position, an opposed member that abuts an inner peripheral surface of the intermediate transfer belt, and is opposed to the second transfer member at the second transfer position, and an abutment member that is rotatably arranged so as to contact the inner peripheral surface of the intermediate transfer belt at a contact point, the contact point being located on the second transfer member side of a region defined by an imaginary line extended orthogonally to an imaginary normal, the imaginary normal connecting a center of the opposed member and a center of the second transfer member at the second transfer position.