Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus that adjusts a transfer bias according to surface properties of a transfer target
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Application No.: US15071773Application Date: 2016-03-16
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Publication No.: US09740156B2Publication Date: 2017-08-22
- Inventor: Yuuji Wada , Hiroyoshi Haga , Naohiro Kumagai , Seiichi Kogure , Junpei Fujita , Kazuki Yogosawa , Kenji Sugiura , Takehide Mizutani , Tatsuya Ohsugi , Hirokazu Ishii
- Applicant: Yuuji Wada , Hiroyoshi Haga , Naohiro Kumagai , Seiichi Kogure , Junpei Fujita , Kazuki Yogosawa , Kenji Sugiura , Takehide Mizutani , Tatsuya Ohsugi , Hirokazu Ishii
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2015-055964 20150319; JP2015-089234 20150424; JP2016-010350 20160122
- Main IPC: G03G15/16
- IPC: G03G15/16 ; G03G15/00

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a toner image forming unit, a nip formation member, a transfer power source, an information acquisition device, and a controller. The information acquisition device acquires specific information that specifies whether a recording sheet as a transfer target of a toner image is an uneven surface sheet having an uneven surface. The controller outputs a bias including a superimposed voltage, in which an alternating current (AC) voltage is superimposed on a direct current (DC) voltage, as a transfer bias from the transfer power source when the specific information acquired by the information acquisition device is not information corresponding to the uneven surface sheet and to output a bias including only the DC voltage as the transfer bias from the transfer power source when the specific information is the information corresponding to the uneven surface sheet.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160274504A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2016-09-22
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