Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus
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Application No.: US17211208Application Date: 2021-03-24
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Publication No.: US11334014B2Publication Date: 2022-05-17
- Inventor: Yasutaka Yagi , Ken Yokoyama
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Venable LLP
- Priority: JPJP2020-059019 20200327,JPJP2021-006083 20210118
- Main IPC: G03G15/00
- IPC: G03G15/00 ; G03G15/16

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion configured to form a toner image on an image bearing member; an intermediate transfer member onto which the toner image is transferred from the image bearing member in a primary transfer portion to form an image portion; and a control portion configured to perform control to form a toner image for lubrication in a non-image portion of the intermediate transfer member onto which the toner image for a print image based on image information is not to be formed. In a state in which the non-image portion is to be formed downstream of the image portion in a movement direction of the surface of the intermediate transfer member, the control portion performs control to change a size of a region for forming the toner image for lubrication based on the image information.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210302885A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2021-09-30
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