摘要:
A powder supply device to supply powder to a supply destination includes a body, a single holder including multiple mounts on which multiple powder containers are removably mounted respectively, and a reservoir disposed in the body and below the single holder to store powder discharged from the multiple powder containers; and the single holder is removably attachable to the body of the powder supply device including the reservoir.
摘要:
A powder feeding device includes a powder container, a feeding tank in communication with the powder container, a negative pressure room in communication with the feeding tank via a suction port communicating tube; an air suction device in communication with the negative pressure room via a negative pressure room communication tube; a suction port opening and closing unit that opens and closes the suction port communicating tube; a negative pressure room opening and closing unit that opens and closes of the negative pressure room communication tube; an output port opening and closing unit that opens and closes an output port of the feeding tank; and a controller that performs negative pressure generation control, powder supply control, and powder discharge control. Further, the controller simultaneously starts the negative pressure generation control and the powder discharge control.
摘要:
An electrophotographic apparatus includes: a photoconductor; and two developing rollers facing the photoconductor. A developer fed out from between the two developing rollers is supplied to the photoconductor by the two developing rollers to form a toner image on the photoconductor. The developer includes a carrier having a volume-average particle size smaller than 70 μm and a volume resistivity not lower than 106 Ω·cm. A volume ratio of the carrier in a facing portion between the photoconductor and the developing rollers is not lower than 30% and not higher than 46%.
摘要:
A multi-color printer (and a method therefor) includes a drum-shaped photosensitive body for black toner, a belt-shaped toner carrier for non-black color toner, a first transferring unit for transferring a color-toner image formed on the belt-shaped toner carrier to a medium, a second transferring unit for transferring a black toner image formed on the drum-shaped photosensitive body, the drum-shaped photosensitive body being disposed near the belt-shaped toner carrier, and a fusing unit for fusing to the medium the black toner image and the color toner image transferred to the paper.
摘要:
In an image forming apparatus for charging a photosensitive body, changing the light exposure amount in at least three levels at exposure to light, thereby forming an electrostatic image made up of a high-potential part, a low-potential part, and an intermediate-potential part therebetween on the photosensitive body, and normally developing and inversely developing the electrostatic image using toners different in charge polarity for forming two types of toner images on the photosensitive body, a first developer used with a first toner image developing unit has electric resistance changed within 10% in the change range of applied voltage to the developer as the difference between a surface potential of the photosensitive body and a developing bias voltage.
摘要:
In an image forming apparatus, the developing unit includes two developing rollers whose rotational directions are different from each other, and a bias potential of the developing roller (first developing roller) located upstream in the rotational direction of the photosensitive member is selected to be a potential, which is in value between a bias potential of the developing roller (second developing roller) located downstream in the same direction and a background potential.
摘要:
A toner bottle driving device control method includes driving one of multiple toner bottle driving devices connected to a single toner container at a time, detecting abnormality of a toner bottle driving device being driven, determining a first abnormality phase of the toner bottle driving device being driven when a number of times the abnormality is detected exceeds a threshold, inhibiting the toner bottle driving device being in the first abnormality phase from driving until the first abnormality phase is resolved, driving a drivable toner bottle driving device containing a non-empty toner bottle when the toner bottle contained in the toner bottle driving device being driven is determined as empty, determining that the multiple toner bottle driving devices are in a second abnormality phase when each of the multiple toner bottle driving devices is determined as being in the first abnormality phase, and inhibiting image formation.
摘要:
A powder supply device to supply powder to a supply destination includes a body, a single holder including multiple mounts on which multiple powder containers are removably mounted respectively, and a reservoir disposed in the body and below the single holder to store powder discharged from the multiple powder containers; and the single holder is removably attachable to the body of the powder supply device including the reservoir.
摘要:
A powder feeding device includes a powder container, a feeding tank in communication with the powder container, a negative pressure room in communication with the feeding tank via a suction port communicating tube; an air suction device in communication with the negative pressure room via a negative pressure room communication tube; a suction port opening and closing unit that opens and closes the suction port communicating tube; a negative pressure room opening and closing unit that opens and closes of the negative pressure room communication tube; an output port opening and closing unit that opens and closes an output port of the feeding tank; and a controller that performs negative pressure generation control, powder supply control, and powder discharge control. Further, the controller simultaneously starts the negative pressure generation control and the powder discharge control.
摘要:
A position where a transport amount regulation member is opposed to a developing roller is in an area wherein the magnetic flux density in the tangent line direction becomes 95% or less of the maximum value upstream in the developer transport direction from the position at which the magnetic flux density in the normal direction formed by two magnetic poles on both sides of the transport amount regulation member on the sleeve roller surface of the developing roller becomes 0 gausses and is in an area wherein the magnetic flux density in the normal direction becomes 90% or less of the maximum value of the upstream pole in the developer transport direction.