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:
An image-forming device that is capable of minimizing toner charge deficiency while feeding an adequate amount of toner to an electrostatic toner transport substrate for transporting toner by an EH effect, having a first storage chamber for storing a mixture of toner and a friction-promoting substance; a second storage chamber; a first transport screw for stirring the mixture in the containers; a second transport screw; and a mesh provided to the first storage chamber; wherein a toner feeding unit is provided for sifting the toner in the mixture in the first storage chamber through the mesh and feeding the toner to a first electrostatic toner transport substrate (not pictured). A potential difference generator is also provided for creating an electrical potential difference between the first transport screw and the mesh, and between the mesh and the first electrostatic toner transport substrate.
摘要:
A powder transferring apparatus provided with a powder electrostatic transferring device includes a plurality of transferring electrodes configured to generate an electric field for transferring the powder by an electrostatic force including a powder transferring amount detecting device to detect an amount of powder on a surface of the powder electrostatic transferring device.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus having a developing apparatus using a development system in which toner is moved by means of a traveling wave electric field. The image forming apparatus comprises a plurality of developing apparatuses having toner conveyance members which convey toner by means of a phase-shift electric field created by voltages of n phases applied to a plurality of electrodes, to a region opposing an image carrier on which an electrostatic latent image is formed; and a voltage application device which applies a voltage having an average potential value between the potential of the image portions of the latent image on the image carrier and the non-image portions of same, to the electrodes of the toner conveyance members of the respective developing apparatuses.
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:
A center beam which is formed out of a thin film constituted to be combined with a light reflection film provided on one surface of the center beam, which has both ends fixed and which is deformed by an electronic force; a substrate electrode which is opposed to the center beam through a gap formed on the other surface of the center beam; an opposed surface which is a surface of the substrate electrode opposed to the center beam modulating the incident light on the light reflection film, the opposed surface restricting deformation of the center beam due to application of a driving voltage to the substrate electrode by abutting on the center beam; and a substrate which has the substrate electrode having the opposed surface, formed in a concave section, and which holds a to-be-held section of the center beam, are provided. As a result, the structure of modulating light by changing the reflection direction of the incident light is simple, response is fast, the wavelength of the incident light to be used is not limited, operation is stable, reliability is high, the number of manufacturing steps is small and cost reduction can be achieved.
摘要:
A liquid jet recording head includes a base member, a liquid layer maintained on the base member and a plurality of heater elements, arranged in a line on the base member, for supplying energy to liquid adjacent thereto, the energy operation portions being put under the liquid layer. A method for making a liquid drop fly from the liquid jet recording head onto a recording sheet so that a dot image is formed on the recording sheet includes steps of (a) generating a bubble in the liquid to which the energy is supplied by each of energy operation portions in accordance with image data; (b) making the bubble grow up until a predetermined size of the bubble is obtained; (c) contracting the bubble under a condition where each of the energy portions supplies no energy to the liquid in which the bubble is formed; and (d) making the bubble disappear into the liquid.
摘要:
A pump furnished with an electrostrictive vibrator which pressurizes ink to be supplied to a head of an ink jet printer. The electrostrictive vibrator is adhered at one end to a diaphragm which closes an ink pressurization chamber, so that the vibrator vibrates integrally with the diaphragm perpendicularly to a plane in which it is adhered to the diaphragm, thereby varying the volume of the pressurization chamber. A vibrator drive signal supply circuit is installed in the pump which includes a time constant generation circuit adapted to apply a time constant to the waveform of a drive signal applied to the vibrator at the time of buildups and falls of the drive signal.
摘要:
An apparatus for removing air from ink which is fed under pressure to a nozzle of an ink ejection head is disclosed. A first solenoid-operated valve is disposed between an ink pressurizing source and the nozzle. Located between the valve and the nozzle is a deaerating unit which has therein a bore for causing air entrained by the ink to surface. An air outlet is formed in an upper portion of the bore and opened and closed by a second solenoid-operated valve. Upon a stop of ink ejection, the first valve is closed (ink supply blocked) while the second valve is opened. Heaters are installed in the bore of the deaerating unit to heat ink inside the bore to a predetermined temperature, so that air in the ink is expanded to become readily separable from the ink.
摘要:
In an ink jet printing apparatus wherein an ink ejection head is loaded on a carriage and, while the carriage moves relative to a sheet of paper, ink droplets are ejected from the head to be charged and deflected to impinge on the sheet of paper, a shape or a position of a conductive member carried on the carriage is varied to develop an electric field which is asymmetrical with respect to a predetermined plane in which charged ink droplets coming out from a charging electrode are to be deflected. The conductive member is constituted by a cover of the carriage, a shield plate, a gutter, a compensating electrode plate, a deflection electrode or the like.