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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a carrier which, in long-term use in an actual machine, suppresses deterioration of the fluidity of a developer and can stably retain charging performance to a toner. SOLUTION: The magnetic carrier 2 comprises a carrier core material 2a having a shape factor (SF-1) of 100-130 and a coating layer 2b comprising a resin composition for coating containing a coating resin and an aminosilane coupling agent. A coating amount of the resin composition to the carrier core material 2a is ≤0.75 pt.wt. based on 100 pts.wt. of the carrier core material 2a, and a content of the aminosilane coupling agent to the coating resin is ≤2.5 wt.%. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a resin coated carrier for stably charging toner with an external additive of a large grain diameter added thereto for a long time, a two-component developer containing the carrier, and a developing device and image forming apparatus for forming a high quality image with no fog for a long time using the two-component developer. SOLUTION: The resin coated carrier is used with a toner in which an external additive having an average primary particle size of 50 nm or more is added to a toner particle, and has a carrier core and a resin coating layer on the surface of the carrier core. In the resin coated carrier, the following expression (1) is satisfied: 0.5≤-logä(A/C)/(B/C)}≤2.5 wherein A represents a volume resistance value (Ω/cm) of the resin coated carrier in an electric field of 1000 V/cm that is obtained by conducting a stirring test, B represents a volume resistance value of the resin coated carrier in an electric field of 1000 V/cm before the stirring test, and C represents a volume resistance value (Ω/cm) of the carrier core in an electric field of 1000 V/cm. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain an electrification controller, an electrifying device and an image forming apparatus by which a photoreceptor is efficiently electrified. SOLUTION: The electrifying device 1 includes an electron emission element 2 and the electrification controller 3. The electrification controller 3 controls an electrified amount of the photoreceptor 12 electrified by the electron emitted from the electron emission element 2 in accordance with applied voltage. The electrification controller 3 includes measuring means 4 and 5 measuring a current amount of the electron emitted from the electron emission element 2, and a control part 7 controlling voltage applied to the electron emission element 2 so that the current amount of the electron emitted from the electron emission element 2 may be constant based on measured results from the measuring means 4 and 5. Thus, the photoreceptor 12 is efficiently electrified by controlling the current amount of the electron emitted from the electron emission element 2 in real time. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a charging device capable of suppressing the deterioration of a body (e.g., a photoreceptor) to be charged or the device components near the body caused by ozone or NOx, and to provide an image forming apparatus using the charging device. SOLUTION: The housing 3 of the charging device 1 has a first opening 8 and a second opening 9. In relation to a discharge electrode 2 as a reference, which is disposed in the housing 3, the first opening 8 is disposed in the direction in which the body 6 to be charged is located. In relation to the discharge electrode 2 as the reference, the second opening 9 is disposed in a direction different from the direction in which the body 6 to be charged is located. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a developing device capable of stably obtaining excellent image quality even when an environmental condition is varied. SOLUTION: The developing device is equipped with a developing roller 3 carrying two-component developer composed of magnetic carrier and toner adhering to the magnetic carrier by electrostatic force in a developer supply area 9 by magnetic force and also feeding it to a developing nip 10 on a downstream side being a developing position for an electrostatic latent image formed on an electrostatic latent image carrier 2. The developing device includes a toner sorting roller 11 removing faultily electrified toner from the developer carried on the developing roller 3 to an area on a more upstream side than the developing nip 10 and more downstream side than the developer supply area 9. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electron emission device capable of stably driving for a long period, an electrifying device using the emission device and its charging method. SOLUTION: An electron emission device 10 has a semiconductor layer 4 formed between a first and a second electrodes 6, 2, and includes an electron emission element 11 of which at least a part of the surface of the layer 4 at the first electrode 6 side is made porous layer 5. The electrifying device 1 uses the emission device 10 having a power supply 20 alternately impressing a positive voltage enabling to emit electron, and a negative voltage having an reverse polarity of the positive voltage. The electrifying method alternately impresses positive and negative voltages on the first electrode 6 of the emission device 10. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electron emission system that cleans fine particle on the thin film of the upper electrode surface of an electron emission device by a noncontact method. SOLUTION: The electron emission system includes a lower electrode 2, an upper electrode 5 consisting of a thin film, and a semiconductor layer 4 formed between the lower electrode and the upper electrode. The system further includes the electron emission device 1 of which surface of the upper electrode 5 is exposed to an outside space, an opposed electrode 21 provided so that it may be opposed to the upper electrode 5 with the outside space therebetween, a fine particle charging voltage control unit 22 that applies a voltage to electrify the fine particles adhered to the surface of the upper electrode 5 between the upper electrode 5 and the lower electrode 2, and a flying voltage control unit 23 that applies a voltage to fly the charged fine particles from the surface of the upper electrode 5 between the upper electrode 5 and the opposed electrode 21, wherein the fine particles charging voltage control unit is operated to electrify the adhered corpuscles, while the flying voltage control unit is operated to fly the charged corpuscles toward the opposed electrode 21. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable stable display operation having a simple structure utilizing an interfacial electrokinetic phenomenon. SOLUTION: Numbers of holes 7 are formed in a two layer porous film 4 interposed between a lower substrate 2 and an upper substrate 3 and each pore 7 is filled with a transmissive liquid 8 and fine particles 9. When voltage is applied between an upper electrode 6 and a lower electrode 5, movement of the fine particles 9 based on electrophoresis is generated. When the position of the fine particles 9 is on the side of an upper layer transparent porous film 4a, white display is performed and when the position of the fine particles 9 is on the side of a lower layer black porous film 4b, black display is performed. When the porous film of the lower layer is constituted of periodically repetitive three primary colors of RGB or a color filter is disposed on the upper transparent substrate 3, color display can be also performed. Bubble occluding fine particles and a bubble itself can be also used. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a resin coated carrier capable of stably charging a toner with an external additive having a large particle diameter externally added thereto for a long period of time, and to provide a two-component developer.SOLUTION: A resin coated carrier 2 is used together with a toner 3 to which a plurality of kinds of external additives 3a having different average primary particle diameters are externally added, in which at least one kind of external additive 3a in the plurality of kinds of external additives 3a has an average primary particle diameter of 50 nm or more. The carrier comprises a carrier core material 2a and a resin coating layer 2b formed on the surface of the carrier core material 2a. The resin coated layer 2b comprises a coating resin and charging assistant fine particles 2c. The charging assistant fine particles 2c form projections 2d in the resin coating layer 2b, comprise a specified ferrite, and have an average primary particle diameter which is larger than the maximum of the average primary particle diameters of the respective plurality of kinds of external additives 3a and which is 0.2 μm or more and 2.0 μm or less.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electron emitting element capable of obtaining a stable and satisfactory amount of electron emission by securing a large number of routes for a current flowing from an electrode substrate to an electron accelerating layer. SOLUTION: The electron accelerating layer 4 of this electron emitting element 1 contains insulator particulates 5 and conductive particulates 6a each having an average particle diameter smaller than that of the insulator particulate 5, and has a conductive particulate layer 16 containing conductive particulates 6b each having an average particle diameter smaller than that of the insulator particles 5 between the electron accelerating layer 4 and the electrode substrate 2. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT