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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fixing device capable of preventing electrostatic offset by reducing a potential difference due to triboelectrification of a pair of rotors by perfectly ozone-less and simple constitution and control. SOLUTION: A potential adjusting device 15e of the fixing device 15 includes: an electron emitting element 15h having an electron acceleration layer 303h held between an electrode substrate 301 and a thin film electrode 302; a first power supply V1 applying voltage between the electrode substrate 301 and the thin film electrode 302 so as to accelerate electron in the electron acceleration layer 303h and emit it from the thin film electrode 302; and a second power supply V2 applying voltage between the thin film electrode 302 and a fixing roller 15a. The thin film electrode 302 is arranged to be opposed to the fixing roller 15a, and the electron acceleration layer 303h includes a particulate layer containing insulation particulates. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of manufacturing an electron emitting element for making a small amount of conductive particulates exist uniformly in a desired region, simply and at a low cost, and for making stable and excellent electron emission. SOLUTION: The forming process of an electron acceleration layer 4 of the electron emitting element 1 includes a particulate layer forming process in which a particulate layer containing insulator particulates 5 is formed by coating a dispersion liquid in which the insulator particulates 5 are dispersed, and a conductive particulate coating process in which a dispersion liquid of conductive particulates 6 is coated on the particulate layer by an inkjet method. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming apparatus efficiently collecting a carrier sticking to the surface of a photoreceptor, on which a toner image is formed, without deteriorating image quality. SOLUTION: The image forming apparatus 1 includes the photoreceptor 10 carrying an electrostatic latent image, and a development means 20 developing the electrostatic latent image by a two-component developer containing the carrier and a toner. In the development means 20, a developing roller 21 supplies the toner to the electrostatic latent image, a carrier collection roller 23, to which a bias voltage with polarity equal to the charging polarity of the toner is applied by a carrier collection bias power supply 24, collects the carrier sticking to the photoreceptor 10. In this process, a vibration means 25 applies mechanical vibration to the carrier collection roller 23. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electron emitting element which can stably emit ballistic electrons emitted from an electrode at an electron emitting side by optimizing the thickness of the electrode at the electron emitting side in consideration of sizes of insulator particles, by securing electrical conduction and by making a sufficient current flow in the element. SOLUTION: The electron emitting element 1 includes a particulate layer 4 between a substrate 2 and an upper electrode 3, and the particulate layer 4 includes metal particulates 6 and insulator particulates 5 each having an average particulate diameter which is greater than that of the metal particulate 6. Then, when the average particulate diameter of the insulator particulate 5 is x (nm), and the thickness of the upper electrode 3 is y (nm), a relational expression of 0.3x+3.9≤y≤75 is satisfied. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fixing apparatus imparting a suitable gloss to an image while preventing a hot offset more effectively than a conventional one by performing efficient non-contact cooling of a fixing belt heated in fixing. SOLUTION: An electron emitting device 15e for cooling the fixing belt 15c includes: an electron emitting element 15h; a first power source V1 applying voltage between an electrode substrate 301 and a thin-film electrode 302 so that electrons are accelerated in an electron accelerating layer 303 of the electron emitting element 15h and emitted from the thin-film electrode 302; and a second power source V2 applying voltage between the thin-film electrode 302 and the fixing belt 15c. The thin-film electrode 302 is disposed facing the fixing belt 15c, and the electron accelerating layer 303 includes metal particles 307 of high antioxidant power, and insulator particles 306 larger than the size of the metal particles 307. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a toner composed of small particles which excels in a cleaning property, a transferring property and charge uniformity, a method of manufacturing the toner, a two-component developer, a developing device, and an image forming apparatus. SOLUTION: The toner contains a binder resin and a colorant, and the outline of a projected image in which the external shape is projected on a plane surface has one or more and three or less bending points. Consequently the toner has a non-spherical external shape, and therefore it is caught easily by a cleaning blade. Further it comes into point contact with an object to be transferred, it achieves both of cleaning property and transferring property. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a charged quantity distribution measuring device and a charged quantity distribution measuring method, capable of sampling a charged particulate without disturbing an air current of a charged quantity distribution measuring part, in charged quantity distribution measurement of a gravitational precipitation type. SOLUTION: This charged quantity distribution measuring device 1 has a charged quantity distribution measuring part 100, a particulate sampling part 200 and a particulate dispersing part 600. The charged quantity distribution measuring part 100 measures a distribution characteristic of a charged quantity of the introduced charged corpuscle. The particulate sampling part 200 is arranged on the charging quantity distribution measuring part 100. The particulate sampling part 200 introduces the charged particulate into the charged quantity distribution measuring part 100 while collecting the charged particulate. The particulate dispersing part 600 is arranged on the particulate sampling part 200. The particulate dispersing part 600 supplies the charged particulate to the particulate sampling part 200 by dispersing the charged particulate by ultrasonic vibration. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a developer that stabilizes and maintains a charge amount of toner, and outputs an image of high picture quality for a long period of time. SOLUTION: The developer 1 contains a carrier 2 and a toner 3, wherein the toner 3 contains a charge control agent, the carrier 2 has a coating layer 2b on the surface to which a charge control agent and conductive particles are added, and the entire structural elements in either the charge control agent of the toner 3 or in the charge control agent of the carrier 2 are included in the structural elements of the other. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electrifying unit for an image forming apparatus obtaining a stable electrifying property by suppressing deterioration in the electrifying unit or components of periphery of the electrifying unit, etc, caused by ozone and NOx generated when an electrostatic latent body carrier is electrified and furthermore suppressing adhesion of foreign matter to a discharge electrode. SOLUTION: The electrifying unit 1 includes the discharge electrode 2 and a case 3 for storing the discharge electrode 2. The case 3 is provided with a first opening 10 and the area of the opening surface of the first opening 10 is smaller than the area of a section of the case 3 going through the discharge electrode 2 and being in a direction which is in parallel to the opening surface. The case 3 further includes a second opening 11 in a position different from the first opening 10. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a developing method by which even in high-resolution image formation, stable gradation is realized by stably forming smaller dots without granularity in a low density portion, and enhancement of image quality and stability of development are achieved by obtaining sufficient density in a high density portion, and to provide an image forming apparatus. SOLUTION: Development is performed with such developing characteristics that the rate of increase of development density to increase of potential difference between a photoreceptor 1 and a developing roller 41 varies between a region where the potential difference is small and a region where the potential difference is large, the rate of increase of development density in the region where the potential difference is small is lower than that in the region where the potential difference is large, and the upper limit of development density in the region where the rate of increase of development density is lower is ≥0.3. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT