Intermediate transfer unit and image forming apparatus
AssigneeKYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
InventorsKeisuke OBA, Koji UNO, Yasuhiro MICHISHITA
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Abstract
The intermediate transfer unit includes: an endless intermediate transfer belt which is turned around while carrying a toner image on its outer circumferential surface; and a plurality of rollers on which the intermediate transfer belt is turnably stretched, wherein the intermediate transfer belt has, on its inner circumferential surface, an information recording area in which belt information has been recorded, and the intermediate transfer belt has a mark at a position in the outer circumferential surface where a positional relationship between the mark and the information recording area comes to a specified relationship.
Claims6
An intermediate transfer unit comprising:
- an endless intermediate transfer belt which is turned around while carrying a toner image on its outer circumferential surface;
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- a plurality of rollers on which the intermediate transfer belt is turnably stretched, wherein
- the intermediate transfer belt has, on its inner circumferential surface, an information recording area in which belt information has been recorded, and
- the intermediate transfer belt has a mark at a position in the outer circumferential surface where a positional relationship between the mark and the information recording area comes to a specified relationship.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.