Image forming apparatus
    2.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US12025944B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-02

    申请号:US18230813

    申请日:2023-08-07

    IPC分类号: G03G21/00 G03G21/16

    摘要: An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearing member, a developing unit to develop an electrostatic latent image at a developing portion, a transfer unit to transfer a developer image to a recording member at a transfer portion; and a brush provided with a plurality of fibers contacting the image bearing member at downstream of the transfer portion and upstream of the developing portion in a rotational direction of the image bearing member. An average contacting pressure of the brush per one fiber to the image bearing member is smaller than a depositing force of the developer not transferred to the recording member to the image bearing member. As the brush in a state of not in contact with the image bearing member is viewed from a free end side of the fibers, an average number of the fibers included in a circumference of a diameter of 100 μm is more than one.

    Image forming apparatus to control transfer voltage for secondary transfer to recording material

    公开(公告)号:US11971670B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-30

    申请号:US17472298

    申请日:2021-09-10

    IPC分类号: G03G15/16

    CPC分类号: G03G15/1675 G03G15/162

    摘要: An image forming apparatus includes an intermediate transfer belt, an outer roller, a power source, and a regulation member. The outer roller transfers a toner image onto a recording material. The power source applies a voltage to the outer roller. The regulation member regulates orientation of the recording material. Information is acquired regarding a timing at which orientation of a recording material first portion, passing through the transfer portion that is located between the outer roller and the regulation member, can change to move closer to the intermediate transfer belt. Based on the acquired information, a transfer voltage target value for transfer onto the recording material is changed between a first target value of a period anterior to the timing and a second target value of a period posterior to the timing that is larger in absolute value than the first target value.

    IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    5.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220269213A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-08-25

    申请号:US17675629

    申请日:2022-02-18

    IPC分类号: G03G21/00 G03G21/10 G03G15/08

    摘要: A driving unit is controlled so that a driving state where an image bearing member is driven with a first potential difference formed between a brush member and the image bearing member at a contact portion where the image bearing member is in contact with the brush member transitions to a stopped state where the image bearing member stops being driven with a second potential difference formed, the second potential difference having an absolute value less than that of the first potential difference.

    IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    6.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220100126A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-31

    申请号:US17547036

    申请日:2021-12-09

    IPC分类号: G03G15/16

    摘要: An intermediate transfer belt has a first region and a second region in an outer circumferential surface thereof that is in contact with a blade. The first region has a first dynamic friction coefficient in a belt conveyance direction, and the second region has a second dynamic friction coefficient. The distance of the second region in the belt conveyance direction is less than the distance of the first region and is greater than the distance of a contact portion in which the blade is in contact with the intermediate transfer belt.

    IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    7.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220082965A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-17

    申请号:US17472298

    申请日:2021-09-10

    IPC分类号: G03G15/16

    摘要: An image forming apparatus includes an intermediate transfer belt, an outer roller, a power source, and a regulation member. The outer roller transfers a toner image onto a recording material. The power source applies a voltage to the outer roller. The regulation member regulates orientation of the recording material. Information is acquired regarding a timing at which orientation of a recording material first portion, passing through the transfer portion that is located between the outer roller and the regulation member, can change to move closer to the intermediate transfer belt. Based on the acquired information, a transfer voltage target value for transfer onto the recording material is changed between a first target value of a period anterior to the timing and a second target value of a period posterior to the timing that is larger in absolute value than the first target value.

    IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    8.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200319578A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-08

    申请号:US16903894

    申请日:2020-06-17

    IPC分类号: G03G15/16

    摘要: An intermediate transfer belt has a first region and a second region in an outer circumferential surface thereof that is in contact with a blade. The first region has a first dynamic friction coefficient in a belt conveyance direction, and the second region has a second dynamic friction coefficient. The distance of the second region in the belt conveyance direction is less than the distance of the first region and is greater than the distance of a contact portion in which the blade is in contact with the intermediate transfer belt.

    Image forming apparatus
    9.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10289036B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-14

    申请号:US15910464

    申请日:2018-03-02

    IPC分类号: G03G15/16 G03G15/00

    摘要: In an image forming apparatus, a peripheral velocity difference is provided between a peripheral velocity of an intermediate transfer belt and a peripheral velocity of an image bearing member, and when a relative moving distance between the image bearing member and the intermediate transfer belt, which is generated in the transfer nip portion because of the peripheral velocity difference, is taken as a shift amount of the toner image, a lower limit value of the shift amount is set to be at least ⅜, preferably half of an average perimeter calculated from a weight-average particle diameter of the toner, which is measured in advance.