Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Neturen Co., Ltd.

Junichi Kato

Satoru Inami

Masahiro Yoshida

Koichi Suwa

Masaki Ojima

Takahiro Inoue

Masahiro Goto

Makoto Takeuchi

Yasushi Shimizu

Atsutoshi Ando

Seiichi Shinohara

Akio Noguchi

Yusuke Nakazono

Koichi Hiroshima

Seiji Uchiyama

Shinichi Tsukida

Yukihide Ushio

Hiroyuki Oba

Hiroshi Satoh

Manabu Takano

Hiroshi Sato

Yoji Serizawa

Kazuro Yamada

Jun Suzuki

Shimpei Matsuo

Masaharu Ohkubo

Hideyuki Yano

Kazushige Sakurai

Hiromichi Yamada

Yugo Yao

Yoshiki Seto

Tatsuya Kobayashi

Satoshi Sunahara

Tetsuya Sano

Kouichi Suwa

Tetsukazu Fukuhara

Tadashi Onimura

Kazurou Yamada

Shinpei Matsuo

Youji Serizawa

Atsushi Numagami

Toshiyuki Karakama

Hiroshi Hashimoto

Seiji Yamaguchi

Katsuhiro Sakaizawa

Shunichi Masuda

Takashi Nakahara

Yukihiro Ohzeki

Kenjiro Hori

Hiroto Hasegawa

Keiji Okano

Haruo Fujii

Masahiro Watabe

Hiroaki Ogata

Hiroki Kisu

Satoshi Akiyama

Noboru Kashimura

Michihito Yamazaki

Toshio Yoshimoto

Noriyuki Yanai

Yoshimi Kuramochi

Erika Asano

Hiroyuki Ohba

Hiromiichi Yamada

Hiroyasu Seita

An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member; a charging member, contactable to the image bearing member, for electrically charging the image bearing member at a charging position; developing means for developing an electrostatic image formed on the image bearing member with a developer; wherein when a first area on the image bearing member which is going to be an image formation area is at the charging position, the charging member moves with a peripheral speed difference relative to the image bearing member, and when a second area on the image bearing member which is a part of an area which is going to be a non-image formation area is at the charging position, the charging member moves substantially without a peripheral speed difference relative to the image bearing member, and wherein a collecting electric field is formed for collecting the developer from the second area to the developing means.

Image forming apparatus with variable speed charging member

An image forming apparatus is provided, which includes: an image bearing member, a charging member for charging the image bearing member, the charging member bearing electrically conductive particles that contact the image bearing member, and a developer carrying member for carrying a developer provided with toner and electrically conductive particles, the developer carrying member being applied a voltage to develop an electrostatic image formed on the image bearing member with the developer and being capable of collecting a residual developer on the image bearing member, wherein the developer carrying member is provided in such a manner that the developer carrying member opposes the image bearing member via a gap of 150 &#x3bc;m or more and 250 &#x3bc;m or less.

Image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member; a rotatable charging member, forming a nip with the image bearing member, for electrically charging the image bearing member; developing structure for developing an electrostatic image formed on the image bearing member to form a toner image, the developing structure supplying electroconductive particles to the image bearing member, wherein the electroconductive particles are fed to the nip by the image bearing member; and transferring structure for transferring the toner image onto a recording material at a transfer position. The developing structure feeds the electroconductive particles to a region of the image bearing member which corresponds to a region between a first recording material and a second recording material immediately subsequent to the first recording material, and a time period from passage of a trailing end of the first recording material through the transfer position to arrival of a leading end of the second recording material at a transfer position is longer than a time period required for the charging member to rotate one full-turn.

Image forming apparatus having variable/controlled timing for successive feeding of recording material at image transfer position

An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearing member; a charging rotatable member, contactable to the image bearing member at a contact position, for electrically charging the image bearing member, the charging rotatable member being rotatable for counterdirectional peripheral movement relative to rotation of the image bearing member at the contact position; developing means for developing an electrostatic image formed on the image bearing member with a developer, the developing means being capable of collecting a residual developer from the image bearing member; and wherein start of rotation of the charging rotatable member is simultaneous with or prior to start of rotation of the image bearing member.

Image forming apparatus having charging rotatable member

Charging system, process cartridge and image forming apparatus

Process cartridge and image forming apparatus comprising charging means including a charge member and electroconductive particles

An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member and an electrostatic image forming unit including an electrification device, which is disposed in contact with the image bearing member at an electrification location for performing injection electrification of the image bearing member. The apparatus is configured to change a peripheral speed difference between the electrification device and the image bearing member in accordance with a first period when an area of said image bearing member, which is to be an image forming area, is present in the electrification position; and a second period in which at least a particle of an area of said image bearing member, the area being a no-image area is present in the electrification position. The peripheral speed in the second period is smaller than the peripheral speed in the first period.

Image forming apparatus including image bearing member and electrification means with changeable peripheral speed difference therebetween

An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member; a charge member, contactable to the image bearing member, for electrically charging the image bearing member, the charge member being capable of being supplied with a voltage; developing means for developing an electrostatic image formed on the image bearing member with a developer; wherein the charge member is rotatable so as to provide a first peripheral speed difference between a surface of charge member and a surface of the image bearing member when the image bearing member is charged for image formation; wherein there is provided a cleaning period for transferring the developer from the charge member to the image bearing member with a second peripheral speed difference, which is smaller than the first peripheral speed difference, between the surface charge member of and surface of the image bearing member, when a charging operation for the image formation is not effected to the image bearing member.

An agitating member for agitating a developer includes a metal shaft, a plate member joined to the metal shaft, and a sheet member joined to the plate member, the sheet member being free to curve. A developing apparatus includes a developer bearing member bearing a developer thereon, a developer container containing the developer therein, and the above-described agitating member provided in the developer container for agitating the developer and supplying it to the developer bearing member. A process cartridge detachably attachable to the main body of an image forming apparatus, includes an electrophotographic photosensitive member and the above-described developing apparatus.

Agitating member, developing apparatus and process cartridge

Hardening is accomplished by heating a longitudinal section of a workpiece such as an odd-shaped bar, and by quenching while constraining the workpiece section in dies. The quenching is executed while the workpiece is pressed in a direction perpendicular to its longitudinal direction by a pressing device which is installed adjacent to the workpiece section constrained in the dies. Warping by quenching can thus be minimized in odd-shaped workpieces, such as an automobile steering rack bar.

Constrained hardening method and apparatus for deformed bar workpieces

A charging member is disposed in contact with an electrophotographic photosensitive member and charges the surface of the electrophotographic photosensitive member electrostatically upon application of a voltage. The charging member has a conductive support, a base layer and a surface layer which are formed on the conductive support. The surface layer contains fluorine resin particles as a filler and a fluorine resin as a binder resin.

Charging member, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus having at least: an image carrying member for carrying an electrostatic latent image, the image carrying member having a photosensitive layer on a conductive substrate; a developer for developing the electrostatic latent image carrying member on the image carrying member; a developer carrying member for carrying the developer and conveying it to a development area; a control member making contact with the developer carrying member for controlling the coating amount of the developer; and a cleaning member for cleaning the surface of the photosensitive layer of the image carrying member by making contact with the surface of the image carrying member with a contact pressure of 0.15N (15 gf) to 0.89N (90 gf). The photosensitive layer contains at least one kind of polycarbonate resin (I) having a viscosity average molecular weight of 1.5&times;10,or less and at least one kind of polycarbonate resin (II) having a viscosity average molecular weight of more than 1.5&times;10,, the polycarbonate resin (I) is contained in 30% by mass to 95% by mass based on the total content of the resins (I) and (II). The developer has a toner containing toner particles and external additives, and the toner contains (a) 0.1% by mass to 5.0% by mass of a first fine powder with a number average particle size of 0.005 &mgr;m to 3.00 &mgr;m, and (b) 0.02% by mass to 2.00% by mass of an inorganic second fine powder containing 25% by mass to 90% by mass of a lubricant, as external additives.

Image forming apparatus and process cartridge

An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a developer carrying member for carrying thereon a developer to transport the developer to a developing zone, and a regulation member provided in touch with the surface of the developer carrying member to regulate coat weight of the developer carried thereon. The image bearing member includes a conductive substrate and a photosensitive layer formed thereon, and the photosensitive layer contains at least one polycarbonate resin (I) having a viscosity-average molecular weight not more than 1.5&times;10,and at least one polycarbonate resin (II) having a viscosity-average molecular weight more than 1.5&times;10,, the polycarbonate resin (I) being contained in a proportion of from 30% by weight to 95% by weight based on the total weight of the polycarbonate resins (I) and (II). On the developer carrying member, the developer is in a coat weight not more than 1.5 mg/cm,at the developing zone after its regulation by the regulation member. This apparatus can prevent smeared images and enables stable and high-grade image formation.

An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member for bearing an electrostatic image; a developer carrying member for carrying a developer and for forming a developing zone with the image bearing member, wherein the developer is externally added with additive having a charging polarity opposite from that of the developer; a voltage applying device for applying a developing voltage to the developer carrying member; voltage a control device for controlling the developing voltage so as to change force for directing the additive toward a non-image portion of the image bearing member in accordance with a number of image forming operations.

Image forming apparatus using a developer of a given polarity and an

A cartridge detachably attachable on an image forming apparatus a photosensitive member as an image bearing member and a cleaning blade member polycarbonate resin having a viscosity average molecular weight of 1.5.times.10.sup.4 or less is blended with the surface layer of the image bearing member, and the peak value of tan .delta. of the dynamic viscoelastic characteristic of the cleaning blade member appears at 12.degree. C. or less.

Cleaning member, image forming apparatus provided with a cleaning blade

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Junichi Kato