摘要:
An image forming apparatus includes a latent image carrying member that carries an electrostatic latent image on a surface thereof, and an ink holding member that is disposed in opposing relation to the latent image carrying member and holds a thin layer of conductive ink on a surface thereof. The surface of the ink holding member is formed of a conductive material and has a plurality of projecting portions. The image forming apparatus further comprising a voltage applying unit that applies, to the projecting portions, a voltage of polarity different from that of a potential of the electrostatic latent image and thereby causes the ink to jump from the projecting portions located in opposing relation to the electrostatic latent image toward the electrostatic latent image. In the image forming apparatus, the following weak inequality is satisfied:(h1+h2-h3)/(h1+h2).gtoreq.0.1,where h1 represents height of each of the projecting portions, h2 represents thickness of the thin layer of ink on each of the projecting portions, and h3 represents thickness of the thin layer of ink between the projecting portions.
摘要:
In the present invention, an electrostatic latent image is formed on the surface of an image carrying member, while ink having a tack value of not less than one is used as ink in an ink developing device. The ink is held in an ink carrying member. The ink held in the ink carrying member is brought into contact with the surface of the image carrying member to supply the ink to the electrostatic latent image formed on the surface of the image carrying member, to form an ink image on the surface of the image carrying member. The ink image is transferred onto a recording medium from the surface of the image carrying member by a transfer device.
摘要:
An improved belt-type fixing unit in which an unfixed developer on a sheet is not disordered by a disturbed air flow when the sheet enters a contact section of a fixing belt and a pressure roller which comes in pressure contact with it, i.e., a fixing section. In the belt-type fixing unit, a space just before the entry of the sheet into the fixing section is obtusely formed so as to secure a sufficient space for the disturbed air flow to escape.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a method of producing a plurality sets of prints from a plural-page original in an image forming apparatus having an endless transfer member onto which images are transferred from an image retaining member. The endless transfer member is operable to support a predetermined number (X) of images during one cyclic movement thereof. In this method, a first printing operation is executed in which the predetermined number (X) of images of a first page of the original are formed on the endless transfer member during one cyclic movement thereof when a desired number (Y) of sets of prints exceeds said predetermined number (X). Second, the first printing operation is repeated until a remaining number (M) of image(s) of the first page becomes less than said predetermined number (X). Third, a second printing operation is executed in which the remaining number (M) of image(s) of the first page and a calculated number (X-M) of image(s) of a second page of the original are formed on said endless transfer member during one cyclic movement thereof after the remaining number (M) of image(s) of the first page becomes less than the predetermined number (X).
摘要:
Electrolytic capacitor anodes are made by sintering metal powder for the anodes in a mold cavity into a continuum of anode bodies and by cutting the continuum into individual bodies. Lead wires for the anodes may either be placed in the mold cavity before the sintering step or welded to predetermined ones of the anode bodies after the sintering step and before the cutting step. A metal support may be attached to the lead wires before the cutting step.
摘要:
An image input/output device is provided that can instantaneously write an image by applying an optical pattern and that can acquire information on the written image as image data. This image input/output device includes a TFT (10); a photoelectric conversion portion (20) including a photoelectric conversion layer (21), a photoelectric conversion pixel electrode (22) and a photoelectric conversion common electrode (23); a display portion (30) including a display layer (33), a display pixel electrode (31) and a display common electrode (32); and a charge sensing amplifier (71) that amplifies an output signal from the photoelectric conversion portion (20). The display pixel electrode (31) and the photoelectric conversion pixel electrode (22) are electrically connected to each other; the TFT 10 can switch between the display pixel electrode (31) and the photoelectric conversion pixel electrode (22) electrically connected to each other and the charge sensing amplifier (71); and a display common electrode (32) can switch between a constant potential state and a floated state.
摘要:
An actuator device which is made as a laminated structure including a displacement-functioning layer having a region to be deformed by the electric field and an electrode-functioning layer having a region to function as an electrode. And an manufacturing method in which the above-mentioned device is easily manufactured, the method in which, according to the laminated structure, arranging each layer to be formed on the transfer section and transferring it onto the substrate to laminate.
摘要:
The present invention provides a display element including a layered body. The layered body includes a layered portion comprising a plurality of transparent thin films with different refractive indexes, and a plurality of electrodes which are adapted to apply an electric field to each of the plurality of transparent thin films. Each of the plurality of transparent thin films comprises a material whose thickness changes according to the electric field.
摘要:
An object of the present invention is to provide nitrogen-containing metallic powder at high productivity, which powder contains a metal such as niobium or tantalum containing nitrogen uniformly, and enables production of an anode electrode that has high specific capacitance and low leakage current and that exhibits excellent reliability for a prolonged period of time. There is provided nitrogen-containing metallic powder which is a solid solution containing 50-20,000 ppm nitrogen, in which the metal that constitutes the metallic powder is niobium or tantalum. The nitrogen-containing metallic powder is produced through the process in which while a metallic compound is reduced with a reducing agent, a nitrogen-containing gas is introduced into a reaction system to thereby form metal, and nitrogen is simultaneously incorporated into metal. A porous sintered body comprising the nitrogen-containing metallic powder and a solid electrolytic capacitor comprising the powder have low leakage current and exhibit excellent reliability for a prolonged period of time.
摘要:
A chiral nematic liquid crystal composition, characterized in that a self-organizing type gelling agent is contained and the phase transition temperature between liquid crystal and isotropic phases is higher than the sol-gel transition temperature, a liquid crystal display device wherein the chiral nematic liquid crystal composition is put and held between a pair of substrates having an electrode, and a method for producing a liquid crystal display device wherein the chiral nematic liquid crystal composition is heated to a temperature of not lower than the phase transition temperature between liquid crystal and isotropic phases and then cooled down to room temperature.