摘要:
An image forming apparatus includes: a photosensitive drum; a charging unit which is brought into contact with the drum and charges it; a developing unit for obtaining a visible image from an electrostatic latent image formed on the drum; a charge high voltage generation circuit for supplying an output which is obtained by multiplexing a high AC voltage with a high DC voltage with the charging unit; a development high voltage generation circuit for supplying an output which is obtained by multiplexing a high AC voltage with a high DC voltage to the developing unit; and a sync circuit for synchronizing a high voltage alternating current of the charge high voltage generation circuit and a high voltage alternating current of the development high voltage generation circuit. A ratio of the frequencies of the high voltage alternating currents of the development high voltage generation circuit and the charge high voltage generation circuit is set to an integer. The high AC voltages are derived from the signals having an integer frequency dividing ratio which are obtained by frequency dividing the same clock signal.
摘要:
A corona discharging device for an electrophotographic copier, laser printer or similar image forming equipment of the type using an electrophotographic procedure. The device has a corona wire, a rear electrode, and a dielectric plate intervening between the corona wire and the rear electrode. A pulse voltage is applied across the corona wire and rear electrode, while a DC bias voltage is applied across the corona wire and a photoconductive element which is located in close proximity to the corona discharging device. A current for charging the photoconductive element is controlled to a predetermined constant value. When the charging current is lowered below a predetermined value or when the DC bias voltage is increased above a predetermined value or decreased below a predetermined value, a high-tension power supply stops feeding a high voltage by deciding that an output is open or short-circuited.
摘要:
An electrophotographic apparatus employs an alternating current corona discharge apparatus for the purpose of forming an electrostatic image on a photosensitive member. The alternating current corona discharge apparatus has a transformer for transforming or stepping up the alternating current source voltage, the secondary winding of which is connected to the ground at one end. The secondary winding is shunted by a series connection of a first plurality of varistors. A smaller second plurality of series connected varistors selected from the first plurality of series connected varistors are shunted by a first diode-resistor series connection of a diode with the cathode on the ground side and a variable resistor and a smaller and third plurality of different series connected varistors selected from the first plurality of series connected varistors are shunted by a second diode-resistor series connection of a diode with the anode on the ground side and a variable resistor. The non-grounded end of the secondary winding is connected to a wire electrode of the corona discharge apparatus and the grounded end of the secondary winding is connected to a shield plate enclosing the wire electrode.
摘要:
A high voltage power supply is regulated using a light dependent resistor. A feedback circuit from the load controls the input to a light emitting diode which is optically coupled to a light dependent resistor connected in series with the load. Increases in the load current tend to reduce illumination on the light dependent resistor, thereby increasing the resistance of that circuit element which reduces the load current. The converse is also true. Regulation may be applied to a D.C. power source or to an A.C. power source by developing a signal indicative of average current level and applying it to the light emitting diode to control the light dependent resistor. The high voltage power control of the invention is particularly useful in regulating corotron voltage levels in a xerographic reproduction device.
摘要:
A power supply is disclosed which provides a plurality of highvoltage DC outputs suitable for driving the corona voltage units located at the charging, developing, and transferring stations of an electrophotographic copying apparatus. Each of the outputs is electrically isolated from the others by means of individual rectifying and isolating diodes to prevent voltage fluctuations appearing at any one of the outputs from being communicated to and adversely affecting the voltage at any of the other outputs.
摘要:
A charging device includes: a housing having a U-shaped cross-section, disposed such that an opening thereof faces a surface of a rotating image carrier, and extending in an axial direction of the image carrier; a discharge electrode configured to charge the surface, the discharge electrode being attached to the housing, inside the housing, and extending in the axial direction; and a cleaner having a protrusion that comes into contact with a bottom plate of the housing and configured to move in the axial direction to clean the discharge electrode in a state in which the protrusion is in contact with the bottom plate, regardless of whether the opening in the housing faces upward or downward.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus according to this disclosure includes: a charging roller that charges a surface of a photoconductor drum; a development unit that forms a toner image on the surface of the photoconductor drum; an image density sensor that detects density of the formed toner image; a charge power supply that applies a bias voltage to the charging roller; a development power supply that applies a bias voltage to the development unit; and a controller. The controller causes the charge and development power supplies to output respective predetermined bias voltages for predetermined time, and is capable of executing a contact and separation determination mode in which a contact and separation state of the charging roller is determined based on whether or not an image is detected by the image density sensor after output of the respective bias voltages.
摘要:
A coil spring includes a resilient portion having a first diameter defined by a first central axis that is hypothetical and an end coil abutting on one end of the resilient portion in an axial direction of the resilient portion. The end coil has a second diameter defined by a second central axis that is hypothetical and shifted from the first central axis of the resilient portion in parallelism with the first central axis of the resilient portion by a predetermined shift amount. A coupler has a first width that is smaller than the first diameter of the resilient portion and greater than a second width obtained by subtracting the predetermined shift amount from the first diameter of the resilient portion. The coupler is inserted into the end coil to secure the end coil to the coupler.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus includes a high-voltage power supply that supplies high-voltage electric power, a charging device that is charged by the electric power supplied from the high-voltage power supply, a photoconductor that carries an image to be formed on a recording medium, with the electric power supplied from the charging device, a temperature sensor disposed at a distant from the photoconductor that detects temperature inside the image forming apparatus, a humidity sensor disposed at a distant from the photoconductor that detects inside the image forming apparatus, and circuitry that outputs a signal for commanding an electric power value to the high-voltage power supply to cause the high-voltage power supply to supply the electric power with the electric power value, and controls supply of the electric power based on an electric power value feedback signal from the high-voltage power supply.