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AssigneeKonica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
InventorEiji Nakane
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An image forming apparatus includes: an intermediate transfer belt for, by rotation thereof, transferring a toner image on a surface thereof; a cleaner for removing toner particles after the transfer by rotation of a cleaning brush which touches the surface of the intermediate transfer belt and rotated during the transfer; a current supplier for supplying a cleaning current having a predetermined value (I2) to the cleaning brush in accord with the transfer; and a controller for controlling the intermediate transfer belt, cleaner and current supplier. The controller obtains a current time T1 and a previous rotation end time T2 of the cleaning brush, and when a time period during which the cleaning brush has not rotated, which is calculated from the current time T1 and the rotation end time T2, is equal to a predetermined time period or longer, sets the cleaning current to “I1”.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
An image forming method used in an image forming apparatus that (i) applies a toner image on a surface of an image carrier in order to form an image, (ii) transfers the applied toner image to a recording medium by rotation of the image carrier, and (iii) removes toner particles that remain on the surface of the image carrier after the transfer by rotation of a cleaning member, which is in contact with the surface of the image carrier and rotated in accord with the transfer while receiving a cleaning current, wherein
A recording medium for storing therein a program that makes an image forming apparatus to perform processing, wherein
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.