Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus and image forming system
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Application No.: US15338906Application Date: 2016-10-31
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Publication No.: US10018929B2Publication Date: 2018-07-10
- Inventor: Tomohiro Kawasaki , Hiroyuki Saito , Kazuhiro Saito , Kei Yuasa
- Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
- Priority: JP2015-231798 20151127
- Main IPC: G03G8/00
- IPC: G03G8/00 ; G03G15/01 ; G03G15/08 ; G03G15/00

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes: a color toner supply unit configured to supply, to a recording medium, color toner for forming a toner image on the recording medium; a transparent toner supply unit configured to supply, to the recording medium, transparent toner having no releasability from a surface member bonded to a surface of the recording medium on which the toner image is formed; and a control unit configured to control the transparent toner supply unit to supply the transparent toner to cover the color toner supplied from the color toner supply unit to the recording medium.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170153573A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2017-06-01
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