摘要:
Premising a duplex imaging apparatus having an image carrier provided with a plurality of image carrying regions, the image deterioration phenomenon (i.e., the so-called “oil ghost phenomenon”), as might otherwise accompany the local transfer of a releasing agent from a fixing unit to the image carrier, is effectively avoided. In a mode where the image carrier 2 is provided with the plural image carrying regions, duplex mode control unit 8 includes an imaging sequence determining portion 9 for determining such a fundamental imaging sequence that when duplex images are to be formed on sheets 4 more than an image carriable number of the image carrier 2, the fundamental sequence determining portion 9 causes the image carrier 2: to carry first screen images A less than the image carriable number in a first imaging cycle of an imaging unit 1; to carry images corresponding to the image carriable number in and after a second imaging cycle so that at least second screen images B may be positioned at the front of the first screen images A; and to carry the second screen images B less than the image carriable number in the last imaging cycle.
摘要:
Image deterioration (so-called oil ghost) due to local transfer of a release agent from a fuser to an intermediate transfer body is effectively prevented. The fuser has a pair of fixing members, a release supply mechanism, an interlocking mechanism, and an interlocking control mechanism. The fixing members are in contact with each other and roll over each other, thus nipping a sheet. The fixing members fix unfixed images on the sheet. The release agent supply mechanism is mounted to at least the fixing member located on the surface of the sheet carrying an unfixed image. The release agent supply mechanism supplies a release agent to this fixing member at a constant rate. The interlocking mechanism interlocks the fixing members and release agent supply mechanism with each other such that the fixing members are kept in contact with each other and roll over each other and that a release agent is supplied to the fixing members. When duplex mode is selected, the interlocking control mechanism controls the interlocking time of the interlocking mechanism according to the length of the path of the sheet going to the nip between the fixing members.
摘要:
To obtain an artificial cartilage tissue having high strength and biocompatibility. There is provided an artificial cartilage tissue which is substantially free of heterologous protein and is substantially free of scaffold derived from non-cartilage-derived cells, but contains mammalian cartilage-derived cells and an extracellular matrix formed by the cartilage-derived cells, where: (1) the water retention per mg of tissue dry weight is 17.8 mg or less; (2) collagen of 5.57 μg or more per mg of tissue wet weight is contained; (3) proteoglycan of 9.22 μg or more per mg of tissue wet weight is contained.
摘要:
The invention provides a double-faced image formation system that prevents transfer and adhesion of a lubricant to an image retaining conveyer and an intermediate transfer part. The system is provided with, on a return path for reversing and conveying a sheet having toner images fixed on one side thereof, a front face electrifying unit and a rear face electrifying unit. Oil adhered on the rear face of the sheet in a fixation unit by the rear face electrifying unit is electrified to a negative polarity, and the oil adhered on the rear face is made impossible to transfer to an intermediate transfer belt. The oil adhered on the front face of the sheet in the fixation unit by the front face electrifying unit is electrified to a positive polarity, and the oil adhered on the front face is made impossible to transfer to a secondary transfer conveyance belt.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus for developing an electrostatic latent image formed on an image carrier, which is rotatable around an central shaft thereof, with plural colors of toner comprises a developing unit assembly an outer peripheral portion of which retains a plurality of developing units each of which includes a developing roller being to be contacted with the image carrier to supply the associated color of the toner thereon, the developing unit assembly rotatable around a central shaft thereof, a first drive member for rotatively driving the developing roller positioned at a contact position of the developing roller and the image carrier, a second drive member for rotatively driving the developing unit assembly to subsequently position each of the developing roller at the contact position so a rotational direction of the developing unit assembly as to be opposed to a rotational direction of the developing unit assembly according to a reaction force derived from the driving of the first drive member.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus registers both sides of sheets with great precision in a sheet transportation direction in both-side image formation. The image forming apparatus includes: photoconductive drums holding toner images; an intermediate transfer belt temporarily holding the toner images; a secondary transfer roll that transfers the toner images to a sheet in a transfer unit; a registration roll rotating toward the transfer unit being in sheet feeding timing; a fixing unit fixing the toner images transferred to a first side of the sheet; reversion transportation paths reversing the sheet and again transporting the sheet to the transfer unit; a first sensor detecting the image of the first side of the sheet; and a second sensor that detects the toner images held in the intermediate transfer belt.
摘要:
An image formation system also serving as an MICR printer including a cartridge mount space for detachably mounting a process cartridge having an image support, a developing roll and a collection vessel, an optical writer ROS for forming an electrostatic latent image on the surface of the image support by a light beam of a predetermined light quantity, and a parameter change system having parameter storage means Me for storing image formation process parameters used when the process cartridge mounted in the cartridge mount space is a normal cartridge and when the process cartridge is an MICR cartridge for forming a ferromagnetic toner image that can be magnetically read, the parameter change system for setting the image formation process parameters in response to the type of process cartridge mounted in the cartridge mount space.
摘要:
A liquid bag connecting member includes a support face and a holding part. The support face supports a bottom face of a liquid bag to be filled with a liquid and is arranged so that an opening part of the liquid bag faces in a gravity direction. The holding part is positioned lower than the support face in the gravity direction and holds the opening part. The holding part includes an opening into which the opening part is inserted. The liquid bag connecting member is connected to the liquid bag to have the liquid bag form into a funnel shape by using a difference of position between the support face and the holding part in the gravity direction.
摘要:
Image formation condition is available, which hardly causes imperfections of the image quality. A full-color image formation system selects plural secondary transfer conditions in a secondary transfer unit within a specific range, forms test charts according to each of the secondary transfer conditions selected, and prints them out. A user checks by viewing the test charts printed on each recording sheet, and selects a page number of the sheet where the user evaluated an image quality as the best; and the image formation system sets the secondary transfer condition for the sheet as a standard secondary transfer condition thereafter.
摘要:
The present invention enables registration adjustments during actual use of an image forming apparatus. A test pattern is formed on a sheet in a full-color image forming apparatus and the test pattern formed on the sheet is read in an image read unit. From the result of reading the test pattern, misregistrations of vertical and horizontal scaling factors, parallelism, squareness, skew, side registration, and lead registration in the test pattern are determined, and mounting positions, drive timings, drive speeds, and the like of constituent members are adjusted.