US 12,227,001 B2
Image forming apparatus
Toshiaki Baba, Kanagawa (JP); Tomoaki Yoshioka, Kanagawa (JP); Satoshi Shigezaki, Kanagawa (JP); Yoko Miyamoto, Kanagawa (JP); Tomohiro Wada, Kanagawa (JP); Haruka Kobayashi, Kanagawa (JP); and Kazuyoshi Hagiwara, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jul. 13, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/864,357.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-169889 (JP), filed on Oct. 15, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0123189 A1, Apr. 20, 2023
Int. Cl. B41J 13/22 (2006.01); B41J 13/00 (2006.01); B41J 13/08 (2006.01); B41J 13/10 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01); B41J 2/01 (2006.01); G03G 15/20 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 13/22 (2013.01) [B41J 13/0027 (2013.01); B41J 13/08 (2013.01); B41J 13/106 (2013.01); G03G 15/6529 (2013.01); B41J 2/01 (2013.01); B41J 2002/012 (2013.01); B41J 13/223 (2013.01); G03G 15/206 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
a holding body that holds a formed image;
a transport unit that transports a recording medium in a state where a tip of the recording medium is grasped by a grasping portion;
a transfer cylinder that has a substantially circular cross section, and that includes a concave portion that accommodates the grasping portion in a direction substantially orthogonal to a rotation direction and transfers an image on the holding body to the recording medium transported by the transport unit by interposing the recording medium transported by the transport unit between the transfer cylinder and the holding body; and
an imparting portion is a sliding member that is disposed in close proximity without coming into contact with a surface of the transfer cylinder and is configured to impart a transport load to the recording medium that is transported to a transfer position at which the image on the holding body is transferred to the recording medium and to slide with respect to the recording medium being transported,
wherein the transport load suppresses a floating of the recording medium from the transfer cylinder.