摘要:
An ink evaluation method of the present invention comprises: a first step of making a given amount of solution pass through a filter and measuring time for the solution to pass through the filter; a second measurement step of making pass through the filter the ink having a solid material dispersed in a solvent and having the same viscosity and the same amount as those of the solution, and measuring the time for the ink to pass through the filter (filter passing time); a calculation step of calculating a ratio of the filter passing times between the solution and the ink; and a determination step of determining whether the ink discharging stability index is high or not based on the measured ratio. Thus, since the ink having a high spraying stability index can be easily determined, ones having the high spraying stability index out of plural types of ink may be selected.
摘要:
In a method of driving a plurality of ink jet heads, each ink jet head comprises a plurality of ink chambers that are each provided with an ink nozzle. The ink nozzles of each of the ink jet heads are divided into N sets each including every N-th ink nozzle, where N is an integer of two or more, and the N sets of the ink nozzles are arranged in parallel longitudinal rows in a staggered arrangement. The respective ink nozzles in corresponding rows of the ink jet heads are spaced apart from each other by a distance equal to an integral multiple of a pitch of the rows of the ink nozzles in each of the ink jet heads in a sub-scanning direction in which a recording medium is moved, and the ink nozzles eject ink as the ink nozzles move relative to the recording medium in a main scanning direction perpendicular to the sub-scanning direction. The ink nozzles of each of the N sets are driven to eject ink on a same line on the recording medium, by controlling a timing at which the ink nozzles of each set are driven and a relative speed between the ink jet heads and the recording medium. When an amount of misalignment between dots recorded by a reference set of the ink nozzles and dots recorded by another set of the ink nozzles exceeds one-half of a dot pitch defined in the sub-scanning direction, an order in which the sets of ink nozzles are driven is changed to reduce the amount of misalignment between dots to below one-half of the dot pitch defined in the sub-scanning direction.
摘要:
An image printing apparatus comprises a storage section and a control section. The storage section stores an absorbing speed information in a storage area, the absorption speed information is a measured speed at which a recording medium used for a printing process absorbs an ink used for the printing process. And the control section controls an ink head so as to perform first dot recording which records a plurality of dots on the recording medium by a pitch of an ink ejection opening of the ink head, and moves the recording medium relatively with the ink head and controls the ink head so as to perform second dot recording which records a plurality of dots between a plurality of dots recorded by first dot recording, in accordance with a print interval time determined based on the absorption speed information stored in the storage section.
摘要:
A toner container for containing therein toner used for development by a developing device for developing a latent image formed on an electrophotographic photosensitive member is provided. The developing device is supported by a developing frame, and the toner container is mounted in an electrophotographic image forming apparatus. The toner container having a toner frame has a toner containing portion containing the toner therein, a toner supply opening for supplying the toner contained in the toner containing portion to the developing device, and a toner seal for openably sealing the toner supply opening. A take-up member, disposed in a space formed by the developing frame and the toner frame being coupled together, is provided for taking up the toner seal. A drive force imparting device is provided for imparting a drive force to the take-up member.
摘要:
A method of producing thin-film products consisting of injecting the molten resin into a die, the internal cavity pressure is momentarily reduced when the internal cavity pressure reaches a prescribed pressure, and closing of the cavity is performed so that the final thickness of the molded product is achieved, and a thin-film molded product produced is produced by said method.
摘要:
A sheet feeding apparatus comprising a sheet accommodator for accommodating sheets and movable in a predetermined direction from a sheet-feeding position; a feeding device for feeding sheets accommodated in said sheet accommodator held at said sheet-feeding position in said direction; a friction member for permitting feeding of only one of sheets fed out from said feeding device while blocking the feeding of the remaining sheets; and a support for supporting said friction member such that said friction member can be moved to a first position for separating a sheet, and to a second position for permitting movement of said sheet accommodator in said direction.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming station for conveying a sheet material along a lateral reference position and for forming an image on the sheet material; refeeding device for refeeding to the image forming station the sheet material on which the image has been formed in the image forming station; means, provided in the sheet refeeding means, for shifting the sheet material in the lateral direction from the lateral reference position by a predetermined amount, wherein the amount of the shift is predetermined on the basis of a change in a lateral dimension of the sheet material resulting from an image forming operation in the image station.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus capable of effecting plural image forming operations on one transfer sheet includes an image transfer device for transferring an image on the transfer sheet, an image magnification changing mechanism for changing the magnification of the image to be transferred onto the transfer sheet, and a control device for controlling the magnification changing mechanism in accordance with deformation of the transfer sheet caused by an image forming operation on the transfer sheet, after a first image is formed on the transfer sheet and before a second image is formed on the same transfer sheet, whereby those images are correctly registered.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus or a process unit detachably mountable in the main assembly of the image forming apparatus, the process unit including an image bearing member and processing device (including a part or all of the components) which is actable on the image bearing member. In other words, the present invention relates to a process unit detachably mountable in an image forming apparatus, the process unit comprising an image bearing member, discharger actable on the image bearing member and a device for fixing the image bearing member, and the discharger and the fixing device being integrally supported by a supporting member. Moreover, an image forming apparatus characterized by an image bearing member, a supporting member for supporting the image bearing member so that it can be moved in the direction perpendicular to the axis thereof, a member for fixing the image bearing member to the supporting member, discharger actable on the image bearing member, and the fixing member and the discharger are integrally supported by a supporting member.
摘要:
A granulating apparatus for continuously producing granules from powdery particles. The granulation chamber of the granulator comprises a feeder for supplying powdery particles to the granulation chamber and a spray nozzle for ejecting a binder solution on the powdery particles held in the granulation chamber. Powdery particles-drying hot gas is supplied from the bottom of the granulation chamber so as to vortically flow upward through the granulation chamber. The centrifugal force of the vortically flowing hot gas causes fully grown granules having a larger diameter to be distributed toward the peripheral wall of the granulation chamber. The granules fully grown to a prescribed diameter are selectively and continuously conveyed to a drying chamber through an outlet port formed in the peripheral wall of the granulation chamber. The granules thus brought are thoroughly dried in the drying chamber. In this way, powdery particles fully grown to granules having a prescribed size in a granulation chamber can be selectively and continuously discharged.