摘要:
A fixing unit, used for fixing images on a recording sheet, includes a heat roller accommodating a heater, and a press roller movable between a retracted position and an operating position. The heat roller is rotated by a driving mechanism. A moving mechanism opens and closes a gap between the press roller and the heat roller by moving the press roller between the retracted position and the operating position. An assist gear rotates the press roller in a predetermined direction when the opening/closing mechanism moves the press roller toward the operating position.
摘要:
A fixing unit includes a heat roller accommodating a heater and a press roller movable between an operating position in which the recording sheet is nipped by the rollers and a retracted position. A driven gear is provided to one axial end of heat roller, which engages a rotating mechanism for rotating the heat roller. An opening/closing mechanism is arranged to move a first axial end (at the same side as the driven gear of the heat roller) of said press roller to said operating position before moving a second axial end of the press roller to the operating position.
摘要:
A color printer includes a single laser scanning unit which is controlled to emit a scanning laser in accordance with color image data on each of a plurality of separated colors to be printed. A plurality of photosensitive drums, whose number corresponds to the number of colors to be printed, a laser scanning unit driver which moves the laser scanning unit to transfer positions corresponding to the photosensitive drums, and a plurality of developing units corresponding to the photosensitive drums are provided, to develop latent images drawn on the photosensitive drums by the laser emitted from the laser scanning unit, using a toner of each color. An endless transfer belt has a transfer surface which is successively moved to the transfer positions, and a transfer device which successively transfers the toner images developed by the developing units on the photosensitive drums, onto the same transfer surface of the transfer belt are also provided.
摘要:
A sheet holding mechanism is provided for receiving and stacking sheets, such as recording papers, ejected from a main apparatus such as, for instance, a printer. The mechanism comprises an ejected sheet tray provided with the main apparatus that is swingable in a predetermined range. The tray is lockable by locking means at every predetermined angle in the predetermined swingable range of the tray. Guide roller means are provided with the main apparatus for leading the sheets ejected from the main apparatus to the tray and are arranged to be swingable in response to a swinging movement of the tray.
摘要:
A doctor blade mounting structure for mounting a doctor blade to a main body of a development device is provided, which includes a development roller which is rotatably arranged in the main body and on the outer circumferential surface of which a magnetic brush is formed. The doctor blade is disposed in confrontation with the development roller with a predetermined gap defined between the distal end of the doctor blade and the outer periphery of the development roller, for setting the height of the magnetic brush to a uniform level. The mounting structure is provided with a rigid support plate to which the doctor blade is attached, and fixing screws for fixing the rigid support plate to the main body of the development device are provided. The doctor blade is mounted to the main body of the development device through the support plate. A doctor blade adjusting member for adjusting the predetermined gap of the doctor blade includes a screw which has its head portion engage the rear portion of the doctor blade to move the doctor blade in a plane toward and away from the development roller.
摘要:
A wrinkle prevention structure is employed in an electrophotographic imaging device using a continuous form recording sheet. The structure is provided with a guide member disposed on the upstream side of a pair of fixing rollers. The guide member has a guide surface extending substantially horizontally for guiding the recording sheet toward a nip between the pair of fixing rollers, and a tension surface arranged on downstream side of the guide surface. The upstream side end of the tension surface is connected with the downstream side end of the guide surface, the downstream side end of the tension surface is formed substantially arc-shaped, and the tension plane is upwardly inclined with respect to the guide surface.
摘要:
In an electrophotographic image developing device, a toner chamber, for accommodating toner to be used to develop an image, is arranged to be selectively coupled to one of a toner cartridge and an additional toner holding member. The additional toner holding member functions as an expansion of substantial toner accommodating space in the image developing device. In the toner hopper to be coupled with the toner holding member, the upper surface of the toner accommodated therein is leveled before it is transferred to the toner chamber. Alternately, the cartridge is constructed so that it is able to be coupled with the toner hopper.
摘要:
A structure for mounting a screen grid member of a corona charger in an imaging device with a predetermined positional relation to the surface of a photoconductive member. The corona charger and the photoconductive member are mounted on a support base member. The support base member is provided with a mount opening where a substantially inverted U-shaped screen grid member carrying the screen grid is inserted. First locking lugs project from the inner wall surfaces of the mount opening, each of the first locking lugs having a surface opposite to a surface facing toward the photoconductive member formed as a locking surface substantially normal to the inner wall surface. Second locking lugs project from the inner wall surfaces of the mount opening, each of the second locking lugs having a surface facing the photoconductive member, formed as a locking surface substantially normal to the inner wall surface. Locking holes are defined on the screen grid member at the positions corresponding to the first locking lugs and the second locking lugs, respectively. The screen grid member is inserted into the mount opening and fixed thereto through engagements of the locking holes with the locking lugs.
摘要:
A method for separating nickel, cobalt and a rare earth element from a material containing positive and negative electrode active materials of a nickel-metal hydride battery includes mixing a material containing positive and negative electrode active materials with a sulfuric acid solution and dissolving therein, and then separating a leachate from a residue; adding an alkali metal sulfate to the leachate to obtain a mixed precipitate of double sulfate of rare earth elements, and a rare-earth-element-free solution; and adding a sulfurizing agent to the rare-earth-element-free solution to separate a nickel and cobalt sulfide raw material and a residual solution.
摘要:
The method for obtaining an acid solution containing nickel is obtained by treating a positive electrode material of a nickel-metal hydride battery. The method includes a water-washing step, wherein a positive electrode material of a nickel-metal hydride battery is water-washed by adding water, and then separated to form a positive electrode material after water-washing and a water-washed slurry. An acid-washing step then is performed, wherein an acid is added and mixed into the positive electrode material obtained after water-washing in the water-washing step, and, separation is performed to form a positive electrode material after acid-washing and an acid-washed slurry. A dissolution step is performed wherein the positive electrode material obtained in the acid-washing step is separated into a nickel solution and a dissolution residue by adding any one of an acid and an oxidizing agent.