US 11,921,453 B2
Image forming apparatus
Shintaro Yamada, Tokyo (JP); Akihiro Kawasaki, Kanagawa (JP); and Hiroaki Katoh, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Shintaro Yamada, Tokyo (JP); Akihiro Kawasaki, Kanagawa (JP); and Hiroaki Katoh, Kanagawa (JP)
Filed on Oct. 31, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/976,899.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-179749 (JP), filed on Nov. 2, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0135510 A1, May 4, 2023
Int. Cl. G03G 15/08 (2006.01); G03G 9/08 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 15/6585 (2013.01) [G03G 9/0819 (2013.01); G03G 2215/00797 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
a latent image former to form a latent image with an adhesive on a base material; and
a visualizer to cause particles to adhere to the latent image to visualize the latent image as an uneven image, the particles each containing an insoluble substance,
wherein two or more latent image formers including the latent image former and two or more visualizers including the visualizer are alternately disposed along a conveyance path of the base material to form the uneven image in which the particles are stacked in two or more layers.