摘要:
An apparatus for preparing electrophotographic photosensitive members comprises a means for forming a charge generation layer by coating a charge generation layer coating solution containing two or more kinds of charge-generating materials having different maximum absorption wavelengths, wherein the apparatus further comprises a means for measuring absorbance or transmittance at the respective maximum absorption wavelengths of said coating solution to measure the mixing ratio of the respective charge-generating materials, and a means for controlling the mixing ratio by controlling the feed amount of the respective charge-generating materials.
摘要:
An electrophotographic apparatus comprises an electrophotographic photosensitive member and means for applying an electrophotographic cycle to the photosensitive member. The electrophotographic cycle includes charging, image exposure, toner development, toner transfer, remaining toner cleaning, and exposure for erasing remaining electric charge. The electrophotographic cycle application means includes abrasion means. By setting the abrasion function of the abrasion means to provide an abrasion of the surface layer of the photosensitive member at a rate of 250 .ANG.or more per 1000 electrophotographic cycles applied to the photosensitive member, the deterioration of image quality such as image-flow and fading of images caused by succession of electrophotographic cycles is effectively prevented particularly with respect to a photosensitive member with a small diameter.
摘要:
An electrophotographic photosensitive member having the structure comprising a conductive substrate laminated thereon with (i) a charge generation layer comprising two or more kinds of charge-generating materials incorporated in binder resins and (ii) a charge transport layer, wherein said charge generation layer comprises at least a first charge generating material dispersed in a first binder resin and a second charge generating material dispersed in a second binder resin, such that the binder resins in the charge generating layer are incompatible with each other.
摘要:
An electrophotographic photosensitive member having a photosensitive layer on an electroconductive substrate comprises a surface layer containing a fluorine type resin powder and a fluorine type graft polymer.
摘要:
An exposure apparatus which includes a projection optical system and exposes a substrate to radiant energy via the projection optical system, includes a temperature measuring device configured to perform measurement of a temperature of a temperature measurement portion of the projection optical system, and a controller configured to perform prediction of a change in an optical characteristic of the projection optical system based on a change in temperature measured by the temperature measuring device, and to perform processing of reduction, based on the prediction, of a change in a state of an image formed on the substrate by the projection optical system, wherein the controller is configured to perform the prediction in accordance with a second-order lag response function to the change in temperature of the temperature measurement portion.
摘要:
An optical apparatus including an image forming optical system having a movable optical element, and a driving mechanism which moves the optical element is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a first block which obtains a linear evaluation value by normalizing, by a first tolerance, an aberration expressed by a linear function of a position of the movable optical element out of aberrations of the optical system, and a quadratic evaluation value by normalizing, by a second tolerance, an aberration expressed by a quadratic function of the position out of the aberrations of the optical system, a second block which obtains a minimum value of a dummy variable by linear programming using an upper limit value of the linear evaluation value as the dummy variable, and a third block which determines a position of the optical element to be moved by the driving mechanism so as to minimize a weighted sum of the quadratic evaluation values with respect to a plurality of image heights by using, as the upper limit value of the linear evaluation value, a value prepared by adding a relaxation amount to the minimum value of the dummy variable that is obtained by the second block. The third block minimizes the weighted sum of the quadratic evaluation values by adjusting the weights assigned to the quadratic evaluation values and the relaxation amount.
摘要:
An image forming method includes forming an electrostatic latent image on an image bearing member having a surface of which contact angle with water is at least 90.degree., forming a toner layer on a toner carrying member, bringing the toner layer into contact with the surface of the image bearing member on which the electrostatic latent image has been formed, while rotating the image bearing member and the toner carrying member reciprocally, and developing the electrostatic latent image by the use of the toner of the toner layer to form a toner image.
摘要:
An electrophotographic image forming method including a toner image transfer step and eliminating an independent step for cleaning transfer residual toner is operated without causing ghost images and with good gradation and dot reproducibilities. In the method, the photosensitive member is exposed at an exposure intensity which is at least a minimum exposure intensity and below a maximum exposure intensity. The minimum exposure intensity is determined on a surface potential-exposure intensity characteristic curve of the photosensitive member by determining a first slope S1 of a straight line connecting a point giving a dark part potential Vd and a point giving a value of (Vd+ a residual potential Vr)/2, determining a contact point between a tangent line having a slope of S1/20 and the surface potential-exposure intensity characteristic curve and determining the minimum exposure intensity as an exposure intensity at the contact point. The maximum exposure intensity is determined as 5 times a half-attenuation exposure intensity.
摘要:
An image forming process is carried out through the steps of electrostatically charging a cylindrical electrophotographic photosensitive member, forming an electrostatic latent image by image exposure, developing the latent image and transferring the developed image to a transfer member. The photosensitive member is comprised of a conductive support and a photosensitive layer which contains oxytitanium phthalocyanine as a charge-generating material and a charge-transporting material. The charge-generating material and the charge-transporting material have a work function (W.sub.F.sup.CG) and a work function (W.sub.F.sup.CT), respectively. Those work functions satisfies the following relationship:-0.2