| 摘要 |
A lubricant supplying device that supplies a lubricant to the surface of an image carrier has a cloud generating section that generates a cloud in which particles of the lubricant are mixed with air and a conveying section that classifies the particles of the lubricant present in the cloud generated by the cloud generating section into small particles with sizes smaller than a prescribed size and large particles with sizes larger than or equal to the prescribed size, and conveys the classified small particles toward the image carrier, and has a lubricant supplying member that holds a lubricant, a contacting member that contacts the lubricant supplying member and causes the lubricant carried by the lubricant supplying member to fly off in the direction of the image carrier, and a leveling member that contacts the image carrier and levels the adhered lubricant. |
