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US 11,921,453 B2Granted
Image forming apparatus
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsShintaro Yamada, Akihiro Kawasaki, Hiroaki Katoh
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a latent image forming device and a visualizing device. The latent image forming device forms a latent image with an adhesive on a base material. The visualizing device causes particles to adhere to the latent image to visualize the latent image as an uneven image. The particles each contains an insoluble substance.
Claims14
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.
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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 the insoluble substance contains magnetic particles,
- wherein the visualizer includes:
- a particle tank storing the particles each containing the insoluble substance;
- and
- a particle bearer disposed rotatably at a bottom of the particle tank, and
- wherein the particle bearer includes a magnet body having a surface covered with an elastic layer.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.