Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To develop images with a stable amount of toner without being affected by a toner consumption history of an immediately previous image, and provide uniform images having excellent color reproducibility for a long period.SOLUTION: A developer carrier 50 according to the present invention includes developer support means 51 that supplies a two-component developer G including a toner and a carrier to an electrostatic latent image formed on an image carrier 1, and has a rotatable cylindrical shape, and magnetic field generation means 55 that is provided and fixed inside the developer support means. The developer support means 51 has a surface 51a subjected to sand blast treatment, and the surface has an average surface roughness Ra of 4.0 μm or more and 8.0 μm or less.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress wasteful consumption of toner by preventing cleaning blade curling and cleaning failure and by efficiently forming a blade curling preventing pattern. SOLUTION: A toner image for use as a blade curling preventing pattern is formed between images, as shown in Figure. A cleaning blade cleans off a toner image for use as a blade curling preventing pattern. The shape of a blade curling preventing pattern is determined on the basis of the shape of an image quality adjustment pattern formed between immediately preceding images. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming apparatus which obtains both an advantage of PTL and an advantage of switching of transfer bias in a non-image part. SOLUTION: The intermediate transfer type image forming apparatus which transfers a toner image on a photoreceptor 21 to an intermediate transfer belt 22 includes: a transfer bias applying means 6 for applying bias to a primary transfer bias roller 23; and an exposure member 27 for eliminating charge of the photoreceptor 21 before transfer after development. The image forming apparatus includes a control means 7 functioning as a mode switching means for switching between an image forming mode in which the charge of the photoreceptor 21 is eliminated by the exposure member 27 and an image forming mode in which the charge thereof is not eliminated, and a control means 7 functioning as a bias switching means for switching the transfer bias between an image part and the non-image part. In the image forming mode in which the charge is eliminated, switching of the transfer bias is not performed. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a very reliable image forming apparatus stably applying bias over a long term, while preventing deterioration of a cleaning blade with lapse of time or a filming phenomenon of a photoreceptor from occurring in a stage for uniformly electrifying the photoreceptor after transfer. SOLUTION: A lubricant coating means is disposed to be positioned between a first blade on an upstream side which cleans a surface of a latent image carrier after transferring a toner image obtained by visualizing a latent image on the latent image carrier to transfer material, and a conductive second blade on a downstream side to which DC high voltage is applied. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming apparatus for setting optimum transfer conditions while suppressing toner consumption, thereby improving productivity and reliability. SOLUTION: In a color image forming apparatus, primary transfer conditions for image carriers are determined in order from the upstream side based on the results of detection by both first and second reference pattern detecting means, the first reference pattern detecting means being configured to detect a reference pattern on an intermediate transfer body further downstream than the most downstream image carrier in the rotating direction of an intermediate transfer body, and the second reference pattern detecting means being configured to detect a reference pattern image on the most downstream image carrier. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming method and device with which reverse transfer is significantly reduced, and a reverse transfer rate is stabilized at the minimum reverse transfer rate, and thereby color reproducibility can be improved.SOLUTION: An image forming apparatus primarily transfers toner images formed on a plurality of photoreceptor drums respectively to an intermediate transfer belt, and secondarily transfers the toner images from the intermediate transfer belt to a recording medium. An electric field of the primary transfer of a colored toner in at least a second color later has a value with the magnitude of an electric field or less at which a reverse transfer rate of a toner in the previous color starts to increase. When a transparent toner or a white colorless toner is used for the first color, and the colored toner is used for the second color or later, the electric field of the primary transfer has a value with the magnitude of an electric field or less at which a reverse transfer rate of the previous color starts to increase.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming apparatus capable of suppressing the occurrence of white spots while providing sufficient image density respectively in concave parts and convex parts on the surface of a recording material, so as to provide good images.SOLUTION: An image forming apparatus, when transferring a toner image on an image carrier to a recording medium, alternately switches a voltage in a transfer direction for transferring the toner image from the image carrier side to the recording material side and a voltage having polarity reverse to that of the voltage in a transfer direction; sets the time average value of the voltage (Vave) to the polarity in a transfer direction for transferring the toner image from the image carrier side to the recording material side, and closer to the transfer direction than the central value of the maximum value and the minimum value of the voltage (Voff); and reduces the (Duty) represented by A/(A+B) when the area on a return direction with respect to the central value (Voff) is A, and the area on the transfer direction side with respect to the central value (Voff) is B, each accounted for in one cycle of a voltage waveform, as concave and convex of the recording material to be used is larger.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress density unevenness or a reduction in density of an image even when voltage used in transfer of an image is different depending on a transferred body.SOLUTION: An image forming apparatus includes: a secondary transfer unit counter roller 63 that transfers a toner image on a recording sheet; a secondary transfer power source 200 that outputs either superposed voltage obtained by superposing DC voltage and AC voltage or DC voltage, and applies the voltage to the secondary transfer unit counter roller 63; and a power source control unit 142 that instructs the secondary transfer power source 200 to output the superposed voltage in a first timing at least for the DC voltage when the secondary transfer power source 200 outputs the superposed voltage, and instructs the secondary transfer power source 200 to output the DC voltage in a second timing that is later than the first timing when the secondary transfer power source 200 outputs the DC voltage.