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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a manufacturing method of a fixing heater having stable heat generation characteristics, a fixing heater, a fixing device, and an image forming apparatus.SOLUTION: A manufacturing method of a fixing heater includes: providing an adhesive ceramic sheet 31 including ceramic particles 32 and an organic binder 33 on a substrate 21; providing a resistance heating element on the adhesive ceramic sheet 31; and calcining the adhesive ceramic sheet to thermally decompose the organic binder, thereby forming an adhesive ceramic layer with the resistance heating element adhered on the substrate.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fixing device that attains excellent heat efficiency and low electricity consumption while preventing the occurrence of poor fixing, and further achieves the reduction in the driving torque of a fixing belt and reduction in damage given to the fixing belt.SOLUTION: The fixing device 15 is equipped with: a tension roller 33 applying a load on a fixing belt 32 from an inner circumferential side of the fixing belt 32. In the length of the fixing belt 32 between the fixing roller 30 and the tension roller 33, the length in the upstream side in a fixing belt 32 rotating direction with respect to the fixing nip area N, is longer than that downstream side thereof.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fixing device reducing drive torque in startup of rotation of a fixing belt and controlling wear deterioration of the fixing belt in the belt fixing type fixing device constructed so that the fixing belt is heated by using heat of a heating resistor generating heat by excitation. SOLUTION: The fixing device 15 is the belt type fixing device including a fixing belt 25 wound between a fixing roller 15a and a heating means 21. An angular displacement-giving means 22 performs angular displacement of the heating means 21 heating the fixing belt 25 in such direction that one end part corresponding to the upstream rotational direction of the fixing belt 25 is brought close to the fixing roller 15a so that the fixing belt 25 is slackened in the startup of rotation. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To firmly adhere a lubricant on an outer peripheral surface of a photoreceptor drum and to avoid enlargement of a cleaning device. SOLUTION: A cleaning device 4 removes remaining toner after transfer of a toner image formed on an image carrier 3 and supplies a solid lubricant 41 to the image carrier, and includes: a cleaning blade 46 which has at least a part of a front end part thereof brought into contact with the outer peripheral surface of the image carrier; a brush roller 42 which is disposed upstream of the cleaning blade in a rotation direction of the image carrier so as to come into contact with the image carrier and is rotated to apply the solid lubricant to the image carrier; a guide member 43 which guides the solid lubricant so as to bring it into contact with the brush roller; a holding member 45 holding the solid lubricant; and a lubricant pressing member 47 which presses the solid lubricant to the brush roller from a rear side of the holding member. The cleaning blade is disposed so that an edge part 46a being not in contact with the image carrier, of the front end part of the cleaning blade is brought into contact with the brush roller. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve photoreceptor drum cleaning performance by stably supplying lubricant. SOLUTION: The lubricant supply device 40 to supply solid lubricant 41 to the outer surface of the rotating image carrier 3 has a brush roller 42 turning in one direction to apply solid lubricant to the image carrier, a guide 43 to bring the solid lubricant in contact with the brush roller, a holder 45 of the solid lubricant, and a lubricant pusher 47 to move the solid lubricant by pushing it from back of the holder to bring it in contact with the brush roller. As the solid lubricant is consumed, this device moves the guide from a position where the solid lubricant touches the brush almost horizontally, to a position where the solid lubricant touches the brush from the upper position almost vertically. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a high-quality image by preventing a micro offset phenomenon in a stage for transferring and fixing toner on recording paper in a transfer fixing simultaneous system. SOLUTION: In the transfer fixing device, a transfer fixing roller 31 and a pressure member 32 are brought into press-contact with each other, and a transfer fixing area is formed between both members. Then, a toner image heated and melted while it is held by the transfer fixing roller 31 is transferred and fixed on the recording paper P entering the transfer fixing area in the transfer fixing area. In the transfer fixing device, the highest pressure area in the transfer fixing area is set to at least either an area at the end on a paper entering side of the recording paper P or an area at the end on a paper exiting side thereof. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a useful electrifying roller capable of obtaining a desired electrification potential with small apply voltage, and to provide an image forming apparatus using the electrifying roller. SOLUTION: The electrifying roller has a laminated structure of an elastic layer which has elasticity and is formed on the outer peripheral surface of a conductive shaft body and a surface layer formed so as to cover the outer peripheral surface of the elastic layer, and the electrifying roller is used for electrophotographic image formation. Ruggedness is formed on the surface of the surface layer, and provided that the electric resistance value of the elastic layer is expressed by Re (Ω) and the electric resistance value when the surface layer is installed is expressed by Rr (Ω), the electrical resistance value Re of the elastic layer is larger than the electrical resistance value Rr when the surface layer is installed (Re>Rr) and the electric resistance value of the elastic layer is ≤4.0×10 7 Ω. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a contact electrification system which will not cause leakage of photoreceptor, even when the maximum diameter of particles contained in the photoreceptor is larger than 1 μm. SOLUTION: This contact electrification system has a photo receptor, made by forming a photosensitive layer on the primer layer made on the front or rear surface of a conductive support, a charging roller disposed to turn keeping its surface, in contact with the photosensitive layer and having a conductive elastic layer between its shaft and the surface, and a power source for apply a dc charging voltage between the conductive support of the photoconductor and the shaft of the charging roller. The conductive elastic layer is made conductive, by dispersing an electron conductive material and an ion conductive material in the elastic material and has conductivity of the extent of not breaking down the insulation of the photoconductive layer with the current concentrated at the curved section, when a current flows between the charging roller and the photosensitive layer by the charging voltage. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To recycle a used charging member as a transfer member by an extremely simple work. SOLUTION: A charging roller 31f is structured such that the circumference of a core metal 31f1 is covered with a conductive rubber layer 31f2, which is a high resistance layer, and the circumference of the conductive rubber layer 31f2 is covered with a tubular conductive layer 31f3, which is a low resistance layer. The internal face of the tubular conductive layer 31f3 is firmly bonded to the surface of the conductive rubber layer 31f2 so that they are integrated. The length of the tubular conductive layer 31f3 from one end to the other is larger than the length of the conductive rubber layer 31f2 from one end to the other. The end parts f3A of the tubular conductive layer 31f3, which extend beyond the corresponding ends of the conductive rubber layer 31f2, are radially shrunk and joined to the core metal 31f1 with a conductive adhesive. Each of the end parts f3A of the tubular conductive layer 31f3 has a prescribed length of notch f3A1 in the direction of the axis of the core metal 31f1. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the following problems; when a base resin of a semiconductor elastic material layer of an electrostatic charging roller has reactivity like that of a thermosetting resin, there is a restriction in the choice of dispersants and therefore it is sometimes difficult to obtain the electrostatic charging roller of a uniform resistance value and also, the influence of the dispersibility of the dispersant is so significant that the control of the resistance value is difficult. SOLUTION: The electrostatic charging roller comprises two layers constituted by coating the outer periphery of a conductive shaft body with an elastic layer and further coating the surface layer, wherein the roller is so constituted as to make the resistances of the elastic layer higer than that of the surface layer and so that the surface roughness of Rz ≥6.4 μm is imparted to the surface layer. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI