摘要:
A planar discharge vessel is composed of a front board 1 made of translucent glass plate and a rear board 2 made of translucent glass plate facing to the front board 1 with a certain distance, a side wall 3 and frit glass 4, which joins a periphery of the front board 1 and the rear board 2 via a side wall 3 to form a planar discharge vessel. Phosphor layers 5a, 5b are formed on an inner surface of the front board 1 and rear board 2 and convert an ultraviolet ray radiated from the discharge medium through discharge into visible light. The external electrode 6, to which a high voltage is applied and the external electrode 7, to which a low voltage is applied are arranged alternately on the outer surface of the rear board 2. A plurality of elongated spacers 8 are arranged at an equal pitch between the front board 1 and the rear board 2 keeping a distance between the front board 1 and the rear board 2 substantially constant and thereby preventing the lamp vessel from breaking due to a pressure difference between inside and outside of the discharge vessel. The linear spacer 8 is located within the maximum width of the external electrode 6, with which each electrode 6 is divided into two in the appearance. Each discharge space is lighted stably by the electrode 6, which is partly exposed to each of the discharge spaces divided by the linear spacer 8 and which is operated as the electrode 10 of each discharge space.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus includes a development cartridge, a placement tray, an apparatus body, and a cover member. The development cartridge contains developer to be applied onto a recording sheet. The placement tray is configured so as to place recording sheets thereon. In the apparatus body, the development cartridge and the placement tray are detachably installed. The apparatus body includes a first opening and a second opening. Through the first opening, the development cartridge is attached/detached. Through the second opening, the placement tray is attached/detached. The cover member has a portion integrally and continuously extending over the first opening and the second opening so as to cover the first opening and the second opening.
摘要:
A cleaning device and process cartridge including the same for an image formation apparatus, which prevents cleaning failures due to toner slipping past a blade, based on an equation for the force of toner particle rotation and the restraining force. Toner on an image carrier is removed by a blade. The relation between the blade and the image carrier satisfies the equation f(θ)=μ2−μ1×(Ntp/Nbt+cosθ)>0. Here μ1 is the friction coefficient between toner and image carrier, μ2 is the friction coefficient between toner and blade, Ntp is the adhesive force between toner and image carrier, Nbt is the force received by the toner from the blade, and θ is the angle formed by the blade and image carrier (the cleaning angle).
摘要:
An image forming apparatus that includes: a process cartridge that includes a power supplied member; a casing that includes an accommodating section for detachably accommodating the process cartridge; and a power supplying member that is provided in the accommodating section and is abutted on the power supplied member of the mounted process cartridge, the power supplying member comprises a conductive wire including a winding section and two arms having the conductive wire extending from the winding section in a different direction, wherein the accommodating section is provided with supporting sections that respectively support the two arms such that the power supplied member of the mounted process cartridge is abutted on the winding section.
摘要:
A cleaning device including an elastic blade whose tip is contacted with a surface of a rotating member in such a manner as to counter the rotated member to remove particles of a toner on the rotated member; and a holder configured to support the elastic blade, wherein a nip formed by longitudinal end portions of the tip of the blade and the surface of the rotated member has a first nip width in a rotation direction of the rotated member, and a nip formed by a central portion of the blade and the surface of the rotated member has a second nip width, and wherein the first nip width is less than the second nip width.
摘要:
A direct-current to direct-current conversion (DC/DC) apparatus includes a control circuit having an error amplifier for voltage control, basing the conversion on a pulse width modulation control using an output of the error amplifier. The error amplifier inputs a voltage signal corresponding to an output voltage of a DC/DC result and a plurality of reference voltage signals. The DC/DC apparatus also includes a soft start capacitor to provide one of the plurality of reference voltage signals. The error amplifier amplifies a difference between the voltage signal corresponding of the output voltage of a DC/DC result and a voltage signal of a lower potential among the plurality of reference voltage signals and carries out the pulse width modulation control. Furthermore, the control circuit includes a circuit for discharging charges corresponding to the output voltage of the DC/DC result when a power supply to the control circuit is turned off.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming apparatus main body including an image forming unit that forms an image on a sheet, a detachable main body sheet feeding tray that holds the sheet and a sheet feeding unit that feeds the sheet from the main body sheet feeding tray toward the image forming unit; an optional sheet feeding device that is capable of being added on a lower side of the main body sheet feeding tray and feeds the sheet toward the image forming unit, the optional sheet feeding device having a first detector that detects whether or not the main body sheet feeding tray is attached to a proper position; and a controller that controls operations of the image forming apparatus main body and the optional sheet feeding device based on a detection result of the first detector.
摘要:
A direct-current to direct-current conversion (DC/DC) apparatus includes a control circuit having an error amplifier for voltage control and controlling a direct-current to direct-current conversion based on a pulse width modulation control using an output of the error amplifier. The error amplifier inputs a voltage signal corresponding to an output voltage of a DC/DC result and a plurality of reference voltage signals. The DC/DC apparatus also includes a soft start capacitor to provide one of the plurality of reference voltage signals. The error amplifier amplifies a difference between the voltage signal corresponding to the output voltage of a DC/DC result and a voltage signal of a lower potential among the plurality of reference voltage signals and, based on-the amplified output, carries out the pulse width modulation control. Furthermore, the control circuit includes a circuit for discharging charges corresponding to the output voltage of the DC/DC result when a power supply to the control circuit is turned off. By the constitution, it is possible to easily realize power turn-on/turn-off sequence controls without requiring any special logic circuit, and thus to control rise/fall characteristics of the output voltage without depending on the load.
摘要:
A power supply control circuit connectable with an input power monitor that monitors an input power value to the power supply, an output power monitor that monitors an output power value from the power supply, and an output power controller that varies the output power value from the power supply, the power supply control circuit having an output power determiner that determines a determined output power value depending on the input power value and a power adjuster that adjusts the output power value to the determined output power value by controlling the output power controller.
摘要:
To avoid burning out a capacitor in a synchronous rectification type DC-to-DC converter due to overvoltages, the synchronous rectification type DC-to-DC converter includes a storage unit storing therein power derived from a power supply, switching elements connecting and disconnecting respective signal paths from power and ground, and a control unit controlling the connecting/disconnecting operations of the switching elements to maintain a voltage output from the storage unit at a predetermined value. The DC/DC converter also includes an overvoltage detecting unit monitoring a voltage derived from the power supply to thereby output an alarm signal when the voltage derived from the power supply exceeds a preselected voltage value, a shortcircuiting unit influencing the connecting conditions of the switching elements when the alarm signal from the overvoltage detecting unit is input therein, whereby the voltage derived from the power supply is shortcircuited, and an interrupting unit interrupting one of the signal paths by the power shortcircuited by the shortcircuiting unit.
摘要翻译:为了避免由于过电压而在同步整流型DC-DC转换器中烧毁电容器,同步整流型DC-DC转换器包括存储单元,其存储来自电源的功率,各自连接和断开的开关元件 来自电源和地的信号路径,以及控制单元,控制开关元件的连接/断开操作,以将从存储单元输出的电压保持在预定值。 DC / DC转换器还包括过电压检测单元,其监视从电源导出的电压,从而当从电源导出的电压超过预选电压值时输出报警信号;影响开关元件的连接条件的短路单元 当来自过电压检测单元的报警信号被输入时,由电源导出的电压短路,并且中断单元通过由短路单元短路的电力中断信号路径之一。