摘要:
A color image forming apparatus includes a housing and a cartridge adapted to be attached to or detached from the housing in a horizontal direction. The cartridge includes a photoreceptor and a plurality of developing devices vertically piled up. Each developing device has an opening to receive toner and a cover to open or close the opening. When the cartridge is detached from the housing in the horizontal direction and is placed in a laid down position thereof, toner can be supplied into the developing devices through the opening which is at the top portion of the laid-down cartridge.
摘要:
Color image forming apparatus includes a belt-shaped image carrier stretched and conveyed around rotating rollers on which image exposure is conducted by a plurality of exposure units; and a plurality of step-formed supporting surfaces below the lower surface disposed of the image carrier. The stepped formation of the exposure unit supporting surfaces avoids interference between optical paths of laser beams for image exposure, and facilitates compactness of the apparatus. The belt-shaped image carrier and the supporting surfaces are provided at a relative angle of 5-30 degrees. The color image forming apparatus is also capable of detecting a specific pattern outputted from the exposure units; calculating the differences of positions of the specific pattern as formed by the different exposure units; and controlling the positioning of the specific pattern as outputted by the exposure units, so as to increase the accuracy of the image forming apparatus.
摘要:
In a toner image fixing device, there are provided an endless belt being looped up around a heating roller and a conveyance roller, a pressure roller for pressing a sheet having a toner image onto the heating roller with the endless belt intervening between the pressure roller and the heating roller. A sensor is disposed inside the loop of the belt so as to come in contact with the heating roller, for detecting the temperature of the heating roller. The fixing temperature for the toner image is controlled on the basis of the temperature of the heating roller detected by the sensor. A first nip region is formed on a pressing portion located between the heating roller and the fixing roller. A second nip region is formed between the belt and the fixing roller, continuing from the first nip region but without contacting the heating roller.
摘要:
In an image forming apparatus, there is provided a multistage exit tray to receive printed recording sheets, which is located above an upper cover to access a conveyance path of the printed recording sheets within the apparatus by opening the upper cover upwardly. When the upper cover is opened, the exit tray is moved to a position where the exit tray does not interfere with the upper cover.
摘要:
A color copier which can be adopted to a printer operation for a peripheral imaging machine. The color copier forms plural color component toner layers on a photoreceptor layer by layer at each rotation of the photoreceptor. In the mode that the color copier is used as a printer, the copier makes two pages of each of the color component toner layers corresponding to an image at one rotation of a rotatable photoreceptor, when the size of the image is not more than one half the maximum size that can be formed by the copier.
摘要:
The invention provides an apparatus for forming a color toner image on a photoreceptor belt. The photoreceptor belt is stretched to form a loop around a plurality of rollers and installed in a cartridge which is made to be detachable from the apparatus. The cartridge is made to additionally house a container for collecting residual toner removed from the photoreceptor belt or a toner supply unit for supplying toner to a plurality of developing devices.
摘要:
A developing apparatus for supplying a developer to a photoreceptor so that an electrostatic latent image on the photoreceptor is developed with the developer. The developing apparatus comprises a developer conveyer, having a rigid surface, for conveying the developer to a developing zone; a developer layer-thickness regulator, shaped like a bar and having a rigid surface portion of the curvature radius between 0.5 mm and 15 mm, for regulating the thickness of the developer to be conveyed to the developing zone; and a supporter for supporting the developer layer-thickness regulator.
摘要:
A multicolor image forming apparatus having an apparatus body and plural kinds of processing devices such as a photoreceptor, an electric charger for providing electric charge on the photoreceptor, an image exposure device for performing image exposure corresponding to multicolor image information on the charged photoreceptor, a developing device including a plurality of developing sub-devices for developing a latent image formed on the exposed photoreceptor into a toner image, a cleaner for cleaning a toner remaining on the photoreceptor after the toner image has been transferred to a copy paper, a plurality of supply devices for supplying toner to each of the plurality of developing sub-devices, and a color process cartridge for accomodating at least the photoreceptor and the plurality of developing sub-devices among the plural kinds of processing devices.
摘要:
An apparatus for forming Y, M, C, and BK color toner images, includes a controller to control an exposure device to conduct a pre-transfer image exposure on the color toner images on the photoreceptor on the basis of recording signals after the final color toner image formation of the Y, M, C, and BK color toner images before transferring the color toner images.
摘要:
An image forming machine, such as a printer or a copying machine for forming a toner image on a photoreceptor includes an image writer, such as a laser beam generator, for forming a latent image on the photoreceptor; a developer for developing the latent image with a developer, which includes a toner and a carrier; a controller for controlling a toner concentration of the developer so that the toner concentration is equalized; a circuit to automatically form a reference toner image on the photoreceptor; a detector for detecting a toner deposition amount of the reference toner image; and a controller circuit for decreasing a toner charge amount of the toner when the toner concentration is equalized and the toner deposition amount of the reference toner image is smaller than a predetermined value.