摘要:
A developing apparatus includes a developer carrying member, disposed opposed to an image bearing member, for carrying a developer; a developing bias voltage applying source for applying a developing bias voltage having an oscillating component to the developer carrying member to develop an electrostatic latent image formed on the image bearing member; wherein 10.0.ltoreq.T11/(T11+T12).times.100.ltoreq.90.0, where T11 is a time period of a first step in which an electric field is formed in a direction for directing the developer from the developer carrying member toward the image bearing member in one cycle of the oscillating component of the developing bias voltage applied by the developing bias application source, and T12 is a time period of a third step between the first step and a second step in which an electric field is formed in a direction for directing the developer from the image bearing member to the developer carrying member, and T11/(T11+T12) is an inclination of the developing bias voltage.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a latent image forming device for forming a latent image having a high potential portion and a low potential portion before a toner image is formed on the image bearing member, a transfer material bearing member for bearing and for conveying a transfer material to a transfer station where the toner image on the image bearing member is transferred onto the transfer material, and a potential applying device for applying a predetermined potential which is lower than the potential of the high potential portion of a predetermined area of the image bearing member. According to the invention, when a portion of the transfer material bearing member is in the transfer station before transfer of the toner image has begun, a portion of the predetermined area is in the transfer station.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus includes image bearing member or members for bearing an image; charging member for sequentially charging a surface of the image bearing member or members to form an image thereon; a voltage source for applying an oscillating voltage to the charging member, the oscillating voltage including a first frequency and a second frequency which is different from the first frequency during charging by the charging member.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus including image forming unit for forming an unfixed image on a recording medium, a pair of fixing rotary members for fixing the unfixed image on the recording medium, a cleaning member for cleaning surfaces of the fixing rotary members, the fixing rotary members and the cleaning member being an integral unit separable from the apparatus, detection unit for detecting remaining quantity of the cleaning member, and a unit for requesting the exchange of the integral unit of the fixing rotary member pair and the cleaning member in response to the output of the detection unit.
摘要:
An image recording apparatus includes an image bearing member; a recording material carrying member for carrying a recording material to a transfer position for transfer of an image; a moving device for imparting relative movement between the image bearing member and the recording material carrying member; and a recess in the recording material carrying member for permitting the image bearing member and the recording material carrying member to face each other without contact therebetween. The recording material feeding speed is switched from a first speed different from the fixing speed to a second speed substantially the same so that when it imparts the approaching relative movement, the peripheral speeds of the recording material carrying member and image bearing member are substantially equal immediately before they contact.
摘要:
The present invention provides an image forming apparatus with an image bearing member capable of rotating while bearing a toner image thereon, a transfer device for transferring the toner image from the image bearing member to a recording material at a transfer position, recording material bearing member capable of rotating while bearing the recording material thereon and adapted to convey the recording material to the transfer position, a pair of rotary members arranged at an upstream side of the recording material bearing member in a recording material conveying direction and adapted to pinch and convey the recording material, and a separation device for separating the recording material from the recording material bearing member at a separation position. When a length from the pair of rotary members to the separation position along a recording material conveying path is L1, a length of the recording material in the recording material conveying direction is L3, a length from the transfer position to the separation position is L4 and a sheet-to-sheet distance between two adjacent recording materials is La, the following relations are satisfied:L1
摘要:
A developing apparatus includes a developer carrying member for supplying a developer to an image bearing member, wherein the developer is a one component developer, and has a flowability index of 5-30%. A developing bias voltage application device applies a developing bias to the developer carrying member, wherein the developing bias application device applies an oscillating bias voltage, including a first peak voltage, for an application period T1, for forming an electric field for urging the developer from the developer carrying member to the image bearing member, and a second peak voltage, for an application period T2, for forming an electric field for urging the developer from the image bearing member to the developer carrying member, wherein T1:T2 satisfies 1:2-1:10.
摘要:
In an image forming apparatus according to the present invention, the toner images of the plural colors on the intermediate transfer member are electrostatically transferred to a transfer material, and the image forming charges the toner image of a color, among the toner images of the plural colors formed on the intermediate transfer member, different from the last color in such a manner that the charge amount per unit weight of the toner image of the different color becomes 0.5 to 1.5 times of the charge amount per unit weight of the toner image of the last color, after the formation of the toner image of the last color on the intermediate transfer member and prior to the transfer of the toner images of the plural colors on the intermediate transfer member to the transfer material.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member for bearing a toner image; a movable intermediary transfer belt extended around a plurality of supporting shafts, the intermediary transfer belt includes a core member and elastic layers sandwiching the core member, wherein a toner image on the image bearing member is transferred onto the intermediary transfer belt, and the toner image on the intermediary transfer belt is transferred onto a transfer material; wherein a distance r (mm) between a center of such one of the supporting shafts as has a minimum diameter and a center of the core member, a distance L.sub.1 (mm) between the center of the core member and a surface of the intermediary transfer belt where toner image transfer occurs, a distance L.sub.2 (mm) between a surface Of the core member and the surface of the intermediary transfer belt where the toner image transfer occurs, and a size t (mm) of the core member measured in a direction perpendicular to a movement direction of the intermediary transfer belt, satisfy:L.sub.1 .ltoreq.0.1r, and0.5t.ltoreq.L.sub.2.A method for manufacturing the intermediary transfer belt is also a part of applicants improvement in the art to which the invention pertains.
摘要:
The present invention provides an image forming apparatus with an image bearing member for bearing an image, and a transfer material bearing member rotatable for bearing a transfer material. The image on the image bearing member is transferred onto the transfer material born by the transfer material bearing member at a transfer position, and a voltage is applied to the transfer material bearing member during the transferring of the transfer material. When a distance between the transfer position and a separation position where the transfer material is separated from the transfer material bearing member along a peripheral surface of the transfer material bearing member in a rotational direction of the transfer material bearing member is L, a whole circumferential length of the transfer material bearing member is L1 and a maximum length of the transfer material usable in the image forming apparatus in the rotational direction of the transfer material bearing member is Hmax, a relation L.ltoreq.(L1-Hmax) is satisfied.