IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING A DISPERSION UNIT

An image forming apparatus includes: an intermediate transfer belt that carries a toner image first transferred and is rotated to transport the toner image to a second transfer position; a second transfer belt that is rotated to come into contact with the intermediate transfer belt and pass through...

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Hauptverfasser: SATO, Koichi, SHIRAI, Masakazu, MATSUSHITA, Kaoru, SUGITANI, Kazutoshi, KANEYAMA, Kiyotoshi, SASAKI, Hibiki
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:An image forming apparatus includes: an intermediate transfer belt that carries a toner image first transferred and is rotated to transport the toner image to a second transfer position; a second transfer belt that is rotated to come into contact with the intermediate transfer belt and pass through the second transfer position of the intermediate transfer belt; a plate-like cleaning unit that comes into contact with an outer circumferential surface of the second transfer belt to clean the outer circumferential surface; and a dispersion unit that comes into contact with a portion of the outer circumferential surface of the second transfer belt to disperse toner which passes through the portion on a downstream side of the cleaning unit and on an upstream side of the second transfer position.