US 11,971,673 B2
Image forming apparatus
Tomoya Ichikawa, Nagoya (JP); Tomoya Yamamoto, Kasugai (JP); Ryosuke Sakai, Nagoya (JP); Kentaro Mori, Kasugai (JP); Kyoko Sugiyama, Nagoya (JP); Ayaka Ohira, Nagoya (JP); and Isami Fujisawa, Gifu (JP)
Assigned to Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya (JP)
Filed by Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya (JP)
Filed on Sep. 29, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/936,503.
Application 17/936,503 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2021/012241, filed on Mar. 24, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-065603 (JP), filed on Apr. 1, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0026662 A1, Jan. 26, 2023
Int. Cl. G03G 15/20 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 15/2039 (2013.01) [G03G 15/6555 (2013.01)] 31 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image forming apparatus with a capability of transferring, from a multilayer film including a transfer layer and a supporting layer that supports the transfer layer, the transfer layer onto an image formed on a sheet, the image forming apparatus comprising:
a process unit configured to transfer an image onto a sheet;
a heating unit configured to fix the image transferred at the process unit onto the sheet, and to transfer the transfer layer onto an image formed on a sheet overlaid on the multilayer film; and
a controller unit,
wherein, the controller unit is configured to be capable of operating in:
a first printing mode in which processes of transferring an image at the process unit, fixing the image at the heating unit, and transferring the transfer layer at the heating unit are executed; and
a second printing mode in which processes of transferring an image at the process unit and fixing an image at the heating unit are not executed, and a process of transferring the transfer layer at the heating unit is executed.