摘要:
A classifier having a simple constitution for classifying powder with a high accuracy is provided. The classifier is provided with a transfer board having a plurality of electrodes for generating electric fields for transferring and hopping the powder by an electrostatic force. The classifier is further provided with an opposite roller generating an electric field for transporting and attaching the powder (toner) transferred and hopped on the transfer board to the opposite roller, which is opposite to the transfer board.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus is disclosed that is able to improve transfer efficiency and image quality. The image forming apparatus includes an organic photo-conductor with latent images formed thereon, and a developing unit for developing the latent images. The organic photo-conductor has surface friction coefficient less than or equal to 0.3. The developing unit develops the latent images while transporting a two-composition developing agent including a toner T and a carrier C by a traveling wave electric field.
摘要:
A device for detecting viscosity of a liquid which varies with time includes a first tank provided with an overflow section for maintaining a predetermined liquid height, and a second tank fluidly communicated to the first tank and provided with a restricted outlet, or orifice. While a liquid is circulated through the two tanks by a pump, a height sensor which is dipped in the liquid in the second tank senses a liquid height in the tank in terms of capacitance. The output of the height sensor is representative of a viscosity of the liquid.
摘要:
In multi-nozzle ink jet printing for divisional-printing or color-printing information on a single paper with ink of a same color or of different colors ejected from a plurality of nozzles which are mounted on a carriage, a unique method is provided for the prevention of unregistered printing of an image due to positional deviation between the ink issuing from the respective nozzles with respect to a direction of movement of the carriage. A difference in position between ink drops from the respective nozzles with respect to the direction of carriage movement is detected so as to determine the timings for starting printing with the ink from the respective nozzles based on the detected difference.
摘要:
An ink jet printing apparatus uses as its charge detection means a gutter which is made of a conductive material, insulated from collected ink and grounded through a resistor. A charging electrode is supplied with charging voltage pulses for a phase search intermittently at a predetermined period which is at least two times the period of a drive frequency of ink droplets. The resultant voltage appearing across the resistor is amplified and filtered to pick out a pulse signal of the predetermined period. The resistance of the resistor between the gutter and the ground is preselected to be sufficiently smaller than that of the ink.
摘要:
Considering the fact that a charging voltage and the resultant amount of deflection of an ink droplet are substantially proportional to each other, actual measurement is first made of a charging voltage for causing ink droplets to fly to at least one predetermined deflection position and then, based on the measured voltage, proper charging voltages for driving ink droplets to other deflection positions are computed. Further, more adequate charging voltages are determined taking nozzle compensatory coefficients allotted to individual ink ejection holes of nozzles and/or step compensatory coefficients for individual deflection steps into consideration.
摘要:
Prior to printing, ink drops are ejected from an ink ejection head or nozzle (28) and an amount of deflection is sweepingly varied until the ink drops hit a target (57), thereby providing a reference which compensates for variations in an amount of charge of the ink drops, a deflection voltage and an ink drop velocity. The ink temperature or an ejection pump pressure are sweepingly varied, prior to the deflection sweep operation, until a sensed ink ejection velocity and thereby ink drop mass become equal to a predetermined value to provide a desired printing density or darkness.
摘要:
A first ultrasonic transducer is normally energized so that the ink jet normally emerging through a nozzle of an ink manifold containing the pressurized ink may break into an ink drop within a charge electrode and the charged ink drop may be deflected by a pair of deflection electrodes so as to travel toward a gutter. In response to the ink-placement signal a second ultrasonic transducer is de-energized when it has been energized in phase or in opposite phase with the first ultrasonic transducer when the second ultrasonic transducer has been de-energized so that the formation of each ink drop may occur outside of the charge electrode and the uncharged ink drop may travel to strike against a recording medium.
摘要:
A first ink tank (17) is attached to a movable ink jet printing head (12) for supplying ink thereto. A second ink tank (28) which is larger than the first ink tank (17) is fixedly mounted at an end of a carriage (19) which supports the printing head (12). After the printing head (12) prints a line, a print end signal causes a sensor (33) to sense the amount of ink in the first ink tank (17). If the amount is low the printing head (12) is moved so that a connector (31) of the first ink tank (17) mates with a connector (29) of the second ink tank (28) and ink is urged to flow from the second ink tank (28) to fill up the first ink tank (17). The amount of ink in the first ink tank (17) is again sensed and if it is still low, indicating that the amount of ink in the second ink tank (28) is also low, an annunciator (41) is energized to urge the apparatus operator to fill the second ink tank (28) with ink.
摘要:
First and second optical systems each comprise identical converging lenses which focus light images of an object onto identical photosensor arrays, the lenses being parallel. First and second mirrors reflect the light images from the respective lenses onto the respective arrays. The first mirror is fixed whereas the second mirror is rotatable. Where the second mirror is rotated to a position where the light images on the arrays are identical, the distance to the object is a function of the position of the second mirror which is predetermined by triangulation. As the second mirror is rotated through a predetermined range the arrays are strobed a predetermined number of times to produce analog signals having magnitudes corresponding to incident light. The respective analog signals are subtracted and the resulting difference signals compared with a previously minimum value. Each time the arrays are strobed a counter is incremented. However, when a difference signal has a value lower than the minimum value (a previous difference signal), it becomes the new minimum value and the counter is reset. The count in the counter after the arrays are strobed the predetermined number of times corresponds to the position of the second mirror when the minimum value was sensed and thereby the distance to the object. A servo system may be provided to position a camera lens in accordance with the count in the counter and thereby automatically focus a camera.