Abstract:
A PHOTOELECTROPHORETIC IMAGING SYSTEM AND APPARATUS ARE DESCRIBED WITHIN ELECTRICALLY PHOTOSENSITIVE PARTICLES DISPERSED IN A CARRIER LIQUID ARE SUBJECTED TO AN ELECTRIC FIELD AND EXPOSED TO IMAGEWISE LIGHT CAUSING SELECTIVE PARTICLE MAGRATION IN IMAGE CONFIGURATION. THE IMAGEWISE EXPOSURE IS DIRECTED AT A LIQUID NIP OF THE PARTICLE-LIQUID SUSPENSION. THE EXPOSURE IS NOT DIRECTED THROUGH EITHER NIP FORMING SURFACE.
Abstract:
A transport arrangement for an elongated relatively thin web or continuous sheet of material comprises a means for transporting the material in contact with an electrically conductive body formed of an electrically conductive mat and a plurality of electrically conductive contact members extending from the mat and which are secured to the mat and are in elecrical contact with the mat. The web or sheet is engaged by the conductive body at distal segments of the contact members thereby supporting and spacing the material from the mat while the material is transported. The conductive body is positioned on a transport for movement therewith and imparts motion to the web or sheet. Alternatively, the conductive body is maintained stationary and the material is drawn across the body. Through this arrangement the web or sheet is spaced from the surfaces of the transport and other support surfaces thereby advantageously resisting the adhesion of a charged web or sheet to the surface of the transport surface. Additionally, the contact between the contact members and transported material provides countercharge with relatively firm, well defined local contact thereby avoiding sparking and attendant degradation of the sheet.
Abstract:
A flexible transparent belt electrode is formed into a loop with a roller electrode positioned against the loop on its outside surface. Platens are positioned inside the loop and light is projected through the belt to photoelectrophoretic ink between the belt and roller electrodes.
Abstract:
An electrophoretic imaging process wherein a suspension of particles in a carrier liquid are placed between a photoconductive electrode and a second electrode. With an electrical field applied between the photoconductive electrode and the second electrode the photoconductor is exposed to imagewise radiation which causes particles on the surface of the photoconductive electrode to be driven away in image configuration by charge exchange with the photoconductive electrode. The migrating particles form a negative image on the second electrode leaving a positive image behind on the photoconductive electrode.