Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.
Method, system and apparatus for transferring toner images to both sides of a recording medium
An image transferring device of the present invention includes a first and a second intermediate image transfer body whose surfaces endlessly move while forming a nip in contact with each other. When a sheet nipped by the nip is being conveyed toward a side downstream of the nip in the direction in which the above surfaces move, a first toner image transferred from an image carrier to the second intermediate image transfer body via the first intermediate image transfer body beforehand is transferred to one side of the sheet. At the same time, a second toner image transferred from the image carrier to the first image transfer body beforehand is transferred to the other side of the sheet. One of the two intermediate image transfer bodies is less deformable than the other intermediate image transfer body in the direction of thickness.
Ricoh Company, Ltd.
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Yasukuni Shigeru Hisao Kunihiko Hiroshi Hideaki Naoki Norimasa Chiemi Koji
Omata Watanabe Murayama Tomita Yokoyama Mochimaru Iwata Sohmiya Kaneko Suzuki