摘要:
An electrostatic image forming apparatus has an image bearing member, a movable recording material carrying member and a transfer unit for effecting electrostatic transfer of an image from the image bearing member onto a recording material being carried. A control is provided for controlling start timing of a change of a transfer output of the transferring mechanism in accordance with the humidity so that the output reaches a level effective to transfer the image. The control controls the start timing from before a leading edge of the recording material carried on a movable recording material carrying member reaches a transfer position until a leading edge of an image formation area of the recording material reaches that transfer position.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member for bearing an image; a movable recording material carrying member for electrostatically carrying the recording material; transfer means for electrostatically transferring the image from the image bearing member onto the recording material carried on the recording material carrying member at a transfer position, the transfer means being located at a position across from a side of the recording material carrying member carrying the recording material; and control means for controlling timing of start of change of a current flowing through the transfer means in accordance with a kind of the recording material so that the current reaches a level effective to transfer the image from the image bearing member onto the recording material carried on the recording material carrying member within a period in which a non-image formation area of the recording material at its leading edge is passing the transfer position.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus has an image bearing member, a movable recording material carrying member and a transfer means for transferring the image from the image bearing member onto the recording material being carried by application of a transfer output having a predetermined level, the predetermined level being changeable, and a control for controlling start timing of a change of the transfer output in accordance with the predetermined level so that the transfer output reaches the predetermined level before the leading edge of the image formation area reaches the transfer position. The control is capable of controlling the start timing of the change of the transfer output before the leading edge of the recording material until the leading edge of the image formation area reaches the transfer position.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus has an image bearing member, a movable recording material carrying member, transferring means for transferring the image from image bearing member to the carrying member and a fixing unit. A control starts timing of application of a transfer output of the transfer means so that the output reaches a level effective to transfer the image before a leading edge of an image formation area of the recording material reaches the transfer position and the transfer means is effective to transfer the image on a second side of the recording material with a transfer output that is higher than that which was used to transfer the image onto the first side of the recording material. Start timing of application of transfer output of the transfer means is done so that application of the transfer output onto the first side is started after the leading edge of the recording material passes through the transfer position and before the leading edge of the image formation area reaches the transfer position and so that a time period from the start of application of the transfer output for the transfer operation onto the second side to arrival of the leading edge of the image formation area at the transfer position is longer than a time period from the start of application of transfer output for a transfer operation onto the first side to arrival of the leading edge of the image formation area of the transfer position.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member; recording material carrying member for carrying a recording material, wherein the recording material carried on the recording material carrying member is urged to the image bearing member while an image on the image bearing member is transferred, in a transfer station, onto the recording material carried on the recording material carrying member; a rotary fixing member which is coated with a parting agent, and is contacted with an unfixed image on the recording material; and a backup member for forming a nip in conjunction with the rotary fixing member, wherein the recording material is conveyed through the nip to fix the image onto the recording material; wherein after fixing the image on the first surface of the recording material, the apparatus is capable of forming the image on the second surface, which is the opposite surface to the first surface and a separating device for separating the image bearing member and the recording material carrying member after the image is transferred onto the second surface of the recording material.
摘要:
In a machine tool having a table adapted to support a workpiece, a plurality of drive shafts for moving the table in three directional directions by servomotors, servo control apparatus controlling the servomotors in response to position instructions, drive shaft control apparatus including position detectors of the servomotors, each drive shaft control apparatus is made up of a servomotor rotation reversal detector for producing a movement reversal signal, a memory device for storing correction amounts necessary to compensate for a position error of the axis of the spindle of the machine tool which occurs as a result of reversal of the direction of movement of the drive shaft and other drive shafts and a transfer switches for selecting the memory device in response to the movement reversal signal and for feeding back to the servo control apparatus the correction amount read out from the memory device.
摘要:
In an image forming apparatus, residual toner on an image bearing body is prevented from falling on a convey belt which conveys a recording medium. The convey belt is shifted in a direction perpendicular to a convey direction in which the recording medium is conveyed. A cleaning blade for removing residual toner from the image bearing body has a width that is larger than the range in which the convey belt is movable in the direction perpendicular to the convey direction. No cleaning device is required for the convey belt.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus including a rotating image bearing member, and a cleaning blade having a surface coating layer to be abutted against the image bearing member for removing residual toner from the image bearing member. The surface coating layer has a coating material bead at a position out of a tip end of the cleaning blade, and a distance between the coating material bead and the tip end of the cleaning blade is greater than a width of an abutment area between the image bearing member and the cleaning blade.
摘要:
A blade device for use in contact with an object such as an image-carrying photosensitive drum of an image forming apparatus. The blade device has a blade body made of urethane rubber, a surface coating layer and an underlying primer layer between the surface coating layer and the blade body, the primer layer covering an area of the blade body more extensive than that covered by the surface coating layer, the surface coating layer being provided on the region of the primer layer which is closer to the object than is a portion of the blade body where stresses are concentrated when the blade is held in contact with the object.
摘要:
In a multi-image forming apparatus having a plurality of electrophotographic photosensitive members and adapted to form a multi-image by sequentially transferring image formed on the photosensitive drums onto a transfer sheet, it is possible to the service life of the photosensitive member having the higher frequency in use. To this end, the photosensitive member having the higher frequency in use has a different construction which differs from those of the other photosensitive members. Further, if necessary, an image forming method by the photosensitive member having such different construction is differentiated from those by the other photosensitive members.