摘要:
An image forming apparatus including a cylindrical image carrier configured to carry an electrostatic latent image while rotating, and a cylindrical developer carrier configured to bear a developer and supply the developer to the image carrier by contacting the image carrier at a nip while rotating, wherein the surface of the image carrier has a friction coefficient of from about 0.1 to about 0.4. The image carrier may be an endless belt.
摘要:
A dielectric capacitor is provided which has a reduced leakage current. The surface of a first electrode (38) of the capacitor is electropolished and a dielectric film (40) and a second electrode (37) are successively laminated on it. The convex parts pointed end (38a) existing on the surface of the first electrode is very finely polished uniformly by dissolving according to electropolishing, a spherical curved surface in which the radius of curvature has been enlarged is formed, and the surface of the first electrode is flattened. Therefore, concentration of electrolysis can be prevented during the operation at the interface of the first electrode and the dielectric film, and the leakage current can be reduced considerably.
摘要:
A developing device capable of obviating the cohesion of toner and reducing the amount of dead toner is disclosed. The device has a developing unit accommodating a first and a second screw therein. The first and second screws extend from the toner hopper to the other longitudinal end of the developing unit in parallel to a developing roller and a supply roller. The first screw feeds toner from a toner hopper to a developing section. The second screw collects toner not contributed to development from the developing section and returns it to the first screw for recirculation. In this configuration, the collected toner and dead toner aggregating in the lower portion of the developing unit are forcibly moved to the developing section. The direction in which the screw portion of the second screw is inclined may be partly reversed to form a reverse transfer portion. Alternatively, a part of a casing adjoining the hopper may be implemented as a slant. The reverse transfer portion or the slant recirculates the toner more forcibly.
摘要:
A developing device for an image forming apparatus and using a one component type developer. The developer is transferred from a developer supply member to a developer carrier which are so rotated as to move in the same direction at a position where they contact each other. This prevents the developer from a toner storing section from directly reaching part of the developer carrier having moved away from the contact position despite the movement of the developer supply member. Conductive portions connected to ground and dielectric portions each having a small area are distributed regularly or irregularly on the surface of the developer carrier. Such a surface of the developer carrier is charged by friction by the developer supply member with the result that a great number of microfields are formed in the vicinity of the developer carrier. The microfields allow only the developer sufficiently charged by friction at the contact position to form multiple layers on the surface of the developer carrier. Consequently, the toner with a desired amount of charge and containing a minimum of uncharged toner can form multiple layers on the developer carrier and is transferred to an image carrier.
摘要:
Images projected by an image-focusing optical mechanism including a display unit such as a CRT display are photographed on a photosensitive medium such as a photographic film. First, the optical mechanism is positioned in a reference position. Then, the optical mechanism is displaced by successive intervals while photographing the images successively on the photosensitive medium at respective areas thereon with the optical mechanism. After all of the images have been photographed, the optical mechanism is positioned in the reference position again in preparation for photographing images on a next photosensitive medium.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus includes a fixing unit and a re-heating unit. The fixing unit fixes a toner image on a recording medium by applying heat to the toner image with a first glossiness level. The re-heating unit re-heats the toner image, fixed on the recording medium by the fixing unit, to set a second glossiness level lower than the first glossiness level.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus includes a toner-layer filling-rate lowering unit that causes a toner layer of toner images to be formed on an image carrier so that the toner layer has sufficient optical transparency for exposing and the toner-layer filling rate is set relatively low; and a toner rolling rate adjusting unit that rolls the toner images at a predetermined toner rolling rate in accordance with the toner-layer filling rate when the toner images are transferred to the transferring/fixing unit.
摘要:
A corona charger includes a case provided in the vicinity of a device to be charged. The case includes an opening facing the device, a discharge electrode, a first charging region, and a second charging region. The discharge electrode provided inside the case and supplied with a voltage so as to generate a corona discharge charges a surface of the device from the opening by supplying the corona discharge to the surface. The first charging region includes no grid electrode at a position upstream of the opening in a surface moving direction of the device. The second charging region includes a grid electrode to which a predetermined voltage is applied at a position downstream of the opening. The voltage applied to the discharge electrode is an alternating current (AC) voltage superimposed on a direct current (DC) voltage.
摘要:
A disclosed image forming apparatus includes an image carrier; one or more charging units configured to charge the image carrier in preparation for formation of each of plural latent images corresponding to toner images of different colors; a latent image forming unit configured to expose non-image areas on the charged image carrier to form each of the latent images; and developing units configured to develop the corresponding latent images in sequence with toners of the corresponding colors to form the toner images and thereby to form a color toner image composed of the toner images of the different colors on the image carrier, the toners having polarity opposite to that of the charged image carrier.
摘要:
A ferroelectric memory structure is described for the 1T1C arrangement in a ferroelectric capacitor cell array for FeRAM memory device applications. The device structure provides an accurate reference voltage and a simple sensing scheme for the sense amplifier used for reading the state of a target memory cell of the FeRAM array. A reference circuit generates a reference voltage which is a function of a charge shared between a plurality of FeRAM dummy cells. Each dummy cell of the plurality of FeRAM dummy cells is selectively coupleable to a plurality of bitlines. A shorting transistor in the reference circuit couples two bitlines or two bitline-bars neighboring the selected target memory cell. One dummy cell is coupled to a select one of the two shorted bitlines or bitline-bars, and another dummy cell is coupled to a another of the two shorted bitlines or bitline-bars, wherein at least one dummy cell is biased to a “0” state, and at least one other dummy cell is biased to a “1” state. As charge sharing takes place between the bias states of the dummy cells and the shorted bitlines, an averaged reference voltage is produced which is substantially centered between the “0” or “1” states. A sense amplifier receives a sense signal from the target memory cell on an associated bitline, and the averaged reference voltage is received on another bitline input of the sense amplifier. Thus, a new ferroelectric memory structure provides a centered reference voltage and a simple sensing scheme for the accurate sensing of the logic state of an FeRAM 1T1C cell for a read operation.