摘要:
An image forming apparatus includes: medium transporting belt that carried an image recording medium on its surface, and is driven so that the surface is circulatively turned; a plural number of toner image forming drums facing the transporting belt, each including an image bearing surface having an electrostatic latent image formed thereon, a developing unit for developing the electrostatic latent image into a toner image, and an image transferring unit for transferring the toner image on the transporting belt or an image recording medium held on the transporting belt; medium supplying trays and path for successively supplying image recording media to the transporting belt; a medium attracting electrode facing the transporting belt; a counter electrode opposing to the medium attracting electrode with respect to the medium attracting electrode; an electric field formed between the medium attracting and counter electrodes to cause the transporting belt to attract the image recording medium to the transporting belt; and control unit that controls voltage applied from a power source between the medium attracting and counter electrodes so that electric field developed therebetween when the image recording medium is not interposed therebetween is weaker than an electric field developed therebetween when the image recording medium is interposed therebetween, and has such a direction as to cause the transporting belt to attract the toner to the transporting belt.
摘要:
In order to set a position of a movable member in which a strip-like movable member which is disposed to be movable along a width direction perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the member is disposed so that one edge of the movable member along the longitudinal direction facing a defined line; and the strip-like movable member is positioned with respect to a fixing member under a condition where the one edge is parallel to the defined line to maintain a uniform protruding amount from the defined line is maintained, the one edge of the movable member is made coincident with the defined line; the movable member is temporily fixed to the fixing member by interposing a position setting jig according to the protruding amount between the movable member and the fixing member; and after cancelling the temporarily fixing step to remove the position setting jig, directly fixing the movable member to the stationary member. Alternatively, a position setting jig according to the protruding amount is made coincident with the define line; and after abutting the one edge of the movable member against the position setting jig, the movable member is fixed to the fixing member. Further, position setting jigs for a movable member suitable for the above methods is provided.
摘要:
To bring a sheet 6 electrostatically into intimate contact with a conveyor belt 1 for transporting the sheet 6 by attraction means 60, a press roll 50A for pressing the sheet 6 against the conveyor belt 1 is disposed upstream from the attraction means 60. The press roll 50A is formed at the center with a large diameter part 51 for pressing the center of the sheet 6 stronger than both ends thereof. When transfer to the rear side of the sheet is executed at double-sided image formation, if both ends of the sheet 6 come in contact with the conveyor belt 1, the center of the sheet 6 is pressed strong, whereby deformation at the center is suppressed and a swell is smoothed out in the both-end direction. Relief parts at the rear end of the sheet are also prevented. Resultantly, the intimate contact property of the sheet 6 with the conveyor belt 1 is improved.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus including a plural number of paper transporting units including at least first and second paper transporting units, in-unit paper sensing mechanism located in the first paper transporting unit, unit-to-unit paper sensing mechanism located between the first and second paper transporting units, and drive control mechanism for controlling the operations of the plural number of the paper transporting units, wherein the drive control mechanism includes first mechanism operating such that when any of the in-unit paper sensing mechanism located in the first paper transporting unit detects a paper transport trouble, the first mechanism stops the paper transporting operation of the second paper transporting unit in response to a sensing signal indicative of the presence of a paper from the unit-to-unit paper sensing mechanism, and second mechanism stops the paper transporting operation of the first paper transporting unit upon the stop of the paper transporting operation of the second paper transporting unit, and drives the first paper transporting unit to move the paper a predetermined distance in the direction that is reverse to the normal direction.
摘要:
An endless belt type delivery device includes a drive roller, a plurality of driven rollers including a tension apply roller disposed in such a manner that the respective axial directions of the rollers are set parallel to each other, an endless belt wound around the respective rollers in such a manner that the endless can be driven by rotating the drive roller, and meandering adjusting means, provided in at least two of the above-mentioned rollers, for biasing contact pressures between the two or more rollers and the endless belt toward the axial-direction end portions of the rollers. The contact pressure between the rollers and the endless belt are biased in the opposite direction to the meandering direction of the endless belt by the meandering adjusting means, thereby being able to correct the meandering of the endless belt.
摘要:
A belt transporter roller for an image forming apparatus according to the present invention has a rotating shaft of an elastic roller; and an elastic fin wound around the rotating shaft and provided along an axial direction thereof, the fin including at least two spiral groups different in winding direction.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus comprising: an image recording unit including image carriers on which toner images are respectively formed, a paper carrier which conveys paper fed to a paper drawing-in position while drawing therein, and transfer units which transfer respective toner images on the image carriers onto the paper on the paper carrier at predetermined image transfer positions of the image carriers; paper jam detecting means for detecting a paper jam occurring when the paper drawn in by the paper carrier adheres to the surfaces of the image carriers; conveyor rollers disposed in a paper feeding unit which feeds the paper to a paper drawing-in position in the image recording unit at a predetermined timing; an inlet chute including an upper paper guide and a lower paper guide for guiding the paper fed from the conveyor rollers toward the paper drawing-in position; conveyor roller rotation control means which suspend the rotation of the conveyor rollers until the paper stretched between the image recording unit and the conveyor rollers of the paper feeding unit has passed through the conveyor rollers, if a paper jam arises while the paper is stretched between them; reverse rotation suspending means which rotates the paper carrier in a reverse direction if a paper jam arises and then suspends the rotation; and a removable member configured so as to be detachable from, and attachable to, a main unit of the image forming apparatus.
摘要:
The method reduces vibrations generated in a contactor due to movement of the moving body by which the contactor contacts with a moving body. When a stroke of vibration of the contactor is halved at an intermediate point of an amplitude thereof, the vibrations are made different from each other in frequency between the reciprocation stroke in the forward side which corresponds to one of the halved stroke portions and the reciprocation stroke in the backward side which corresponds to the other halved stroke portion.
摘要:
In an optical detecting device, used for an image forming apparatus, for detecting an object to be detected, such as a paper, by an optical means including a light emitting means 20c, a photo sensing means 20d, a reflecting means 20b, and the like, there is provided at least one of a paper detecting devices in which conductive attracting means connected to a predetermined potential is disposed close to the optical means, the optical means is attached to a periodical replacing component of the image forming apparatus, a reflecting means 20b and a paper transporting path are oriented in different directions with respect to a photo sensing means 20d and a distance from the light emitting means 20c and the like to the reflecting means 20b is different from a distance from the light emitting means 20c and the like to the paper transporting path.
摘要:
A belt transporter roller for an image forming apparatus according to the present invention has a rotating shaft of an elastic roller; and an elastic fin wound around the rotating shaft and provided along an axial direction thereof, the fin including at least two spiral groups different in winding direction.