IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    2.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200073296A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-03-05

    申请号:US16372416

    申请日:2019-04-02

    摘要: An image forming apparatus includes an image holding member, a charging unit that charges the surface of the image holding member, an electrostatic latent image forming unit that forms an electrostatic latent image on the charged surface of the image holding member, a developing unit that includes a developer containing toner particles containing a release agent having a melting temperature ranging from 60° C. to 100° C. and that develops the electrostatic latent image on the surface of the image holding member with the developer to form a toner image, a transferring unit that transfers the toner image to a recording medium, a fixing unit that includes two members of which the outer surfaces are in contact with each other to form a nipping region and of which at least one member is a belt member and that allows the recording medium having the transferred toner image to pass through the nipping region to fix the toner image to the recording medium, a particle charging unit that is disposed in the vicinity of the nipping region and upstream of the nipping region in the transport direction of the recording medium so as to face the toner-image-formed side of the recording medium and that charges particles, and a particle collecting unit that is disposed near the particle charging unit and that is charged to the opposite polarity to the charged particles.

    IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    3.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180275575A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-09-27

    申请号:US15895200

    申请日:2018-02-13

    IPC分类号: G03G15/20 G03G9/087 G03G9/08

    CPC分类号: G03G9/08 G03G9/087 G03G15/20

    摘要: An image forming apparatus includes a fixing unit including a fixing belt, a pressurizing rotator that forms a nip portion between the fixing belt and the pressurizing rotator by pressurizing an outer peripheral surface of the fixing belt, a first heating rotator that is provided so as to contact an inner peripheral surface of the fixing belt in the nip portion and heats the fixing belt, and a second heating unit that heats the fixing belt separately from the first heating rotator, wherein a toner to be used has physical properties described in the specification and includes an amorphous resin, a crystalline resin, and paraffin wax having a melting temperature of 60° C. to 80° C., and an absolute value of a difference in a melting temperature between the crystalline resin and the paraffin wax is 10° C. or less.

    IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE

    公开(公告)号:US20200292982A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-09-17

    申请号:US16546858

    申请日:2019-08-21

    IPC分类号: G03G21/00 G03G21/16 G03G15/00

    摘要: An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier; a charging section that charges a surface of the image carrier; an electrostatic charge image forming section that forms an electrostatic charge image on the charged surface of the image carrier; a developing section that has a container containing an electrostatic charge image developer and develops the electrostatic charge image formed on the surface of the image carrier into a toner image using the electrostatic charge image developer, the electrostatic charge image developer including toner for electrostatic charge image development, the toner containing toner particles and an external additive; a transfer section that transfers the toner image formed on the surface of the image carrier to a surface of a recording medium; a cleaning section that has a cleaning blade with which the cleaning section cleans the surface of the image carrier; and a lubricant supplying section that has a lubricant supplying member that supplies a lubricant to the contact portion between the cleaning blade and the image carrier. The toner satisfies the following relations: (ln η(T1)−ln η(T2))/(T1−T2)≤−0.14; (ln η(T2)−ln η(T3))/(T2−T3)≥2−0.15; and (ln η(T1)−ln η(T2))/(T1−T2)

    IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    5.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190086827A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-03-21

    申请号:US15943268

    申请日:2018-04-02

    IPC分类号: G03G9/00 G03G9/087 G03G9/08

    摘要: An image forming apparatus includes an image holding member, a charging device that charges a surface of the image holding member, an electrostatic charge image forming device that forms an electrostatic charge image on the charged surface of the image holding member, a developing device that has an electrostatic charge image developer containing an electrostatic charge image developing toner and that develops the electrostatic charge image to form a toner image on the surface of the image holding member, and a transfer device that transfers the toner image onto a recording medium, wherein the transfer device includes a belt member and a transfer member, the belt member has an outer surface that contacts the image holding member, and the belt member is winding around the image holding member and the transfer member; and the toner has a binder resin containing an amorphous polyester resin.

    IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING A DEVELOPER CONTAINING A SPECIFIC TONER

    公开(公告)号:US20180004128A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-01-04

    申请号:US15420758

    申请日:2017-01-31

    IPC分类号: G03G15/16

    CPC分类号: G03G15/161 G03G9/00

    摘要: An image forming apparatus includes an image holding member, a developing unit that contains a developer containing toner particles and develops an electrostatic latent image formed on a surface of the image holding member with the developer to form a toner image, a primary transfer unit that transfers the toner image formed on the image holding member to an intermediate transfer member, a second transfer unit that transfers the toner image transferred on the intermediate transfer member to a recording medium, and a guide unit that guides at least one of the image holding member and the intermediate transfer member to a primary transfer position such that a portion of the image holding member and a portion of the intermediate transfer member are disposed along with each other, wherein the specific toner defined in the specification is used.

    IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS WITH ORIENTED FLAKE SHAPE TONER
    8.
    发明申请
    IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS WITH ORIENTED FLAKE SHAPE TONER 有权
    图像形成装置与方向的FLAKE形状调色剂

    公开(公告)号:US20150248081A1

    公开(公告)日:2015-09-03

    申请号:US14332940

    申请日:2014-07-16

    IPC分类号: G03G15/20 G03G15/16

    摘要: An image forming apparatus includes a latent image forming unit that forms a latent image on a photoreceptor, a developing unit that accommodates a developer containing flake shape toner particles and develops the latent image using the developer to form a toner image on a surface of the photoreceptor, a transfer unit, a bias applying unit, and a fixing unit, wherein the flake shape toner particles have an average major axis length of from 7 μm to 20 μm and an average thickness of from 1 μm to 3 μm and contain a flake shape metallic pigment.

    摘要翻译: 图像形成装置包括在感光体上形成潜像的潜像形成单元,容纳含有片状调色剂颗粒的显影剂的显影单元,并使用显影剂显影潜像以在感光体的表面上形成调色剂图像 转印单元,偏压施加单元和定影单元,其中片状调色剂颗粒的平均长轴长度为7μm至20μm,平均厚度为1μm至3μm,并且包含片状 金属颜料。

    IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    9.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200292983A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-09-17

    申请号:US16554696

    申请日:2019-08-29

    IPC分类号: G03G21/00

    摘要: An image forming apparatus includes: an image holding member; a charging unit that charges a surface of the image holding member; an electrostatic image forming unit that forms an electrostatic image on the charged surface of the image holding member; a developing unit that houses a toner for electrostatic image development and develops the electrostatic image formed on the surface of the image holding member with the toner to thereby form a toner image; a transfer unit that transfers the toner image formed on the surface of the image holding member onto a surface of a recording medium; a cleaning unit that includes a cleaning blade and cleans the surface of the image holding member; and a fixing unit that fixes the toner image transferred onto the surface of the recording medium. The cleaning blade has a contact portion that contacts the surface of the image holding member, the contact portion having a JIS-A hardness of from 90° to 130° inclusive. The toner for electrostatic image development satisfies the following formulas: (ln η(T1)−ln η(T2))/(T1−T2)≤−0.14; (ln η(T2)−ln η(T3))/(T2−T3)≥−0.15; and (ln η(T1)−ln η(T2))/(T1−T2)

    IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    10.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200064760A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-02-27

    申请号:US16362702

    申请日:2019-03-25

    IPC分类号: G03G15/20 G03G15/16

    摘要: An image forming apparatus includes an image holding member, a charging unit that charges the surface of the image holding member, an electrostatic charge image forming unit that forms an electrostatic charge image on the charged surface of the image holding member, a developing unit that includes a developer containing toner particles containing a release agent having a melting temperature ranging from 60° C. to 100° C. and that develops the electrostatic charge image on the surface of the image holding member with the developer to form a toner image, a transferring unit that transfers the toner image formed on the surface of the image holding member to the surface of a recording medium, and a fixing unit that fixes the toner image transferred to the surface of the recording medium, wherein the fixing unit includes an endless member to be heated, the endless member contacts with the toner image transferred to the surface of the recording medium; a pressure member that presses the endless member to form a nipping region between the pressure member and the endless member; a first heater that is in contact with the inner surface of the endless member in the nipping region to heat the endless member; a second heater that is disposed in contact with the endless member and downstream of the first heater in the operational direction of the endless member to heat the endless member; and a collection member that is disposed in the vicinity of the second heater so as to face the outer surface of the endless member and that collects particles.