Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Keishi Osawa

Hiroaki Tsuchiya

Yoshiaki Kobayashi

Hideki Adachi

Yoshito Mizoguchi

Nobuyuki Ito

Satoshi Tomiki

Osamu Sugino

Mitsuru Yamatani

Kazuki Tanaka

A developing apparatus includes a toner carrying member for carrying toner to a developing zone where the developing apparatus faces to an image bearing member; bias voltage applying means for applying to the toner carrying member a developing bias voltage for developing an electrostatic latent image formed on the image bearing member, wherein the developing bias voltage is in the form of a DC voltage biased with an AC voltage; wherein when a developing operation stops, rotation of the toner carrying member is stopped while rotating the image bearing member electrically charged, and then, the AC voltage is applied to the toner carrying member for a predetermined period, and thereafter, the AC voltage is stopped in a condition in which regular-charge toner is being urged from the toner carrying member toward the image bearing member.

Developing apparatus

The present invention provides a cleaning apparatus for cleaning an image bearing member, which has a cleaning member for cleaning a toner from the image bearing member by contacting with the image bearing member, and carrying device for carrying the toner cleaned by the cleaning member, in a direction of a generatrix of the image bearing member, the carrying device being vibrated, a distance between the carrying device and a portion of contact of the cleaning member with the image bearing member being smaller than 8 mm.

Cleaning apparatus featuring a vibrating toner carrier feature of specified length and image forming apparatus using same

In a method of developing an electrostatic latent image formed on an image bearing member, wherein a developer carrying member carrying a layer of a developer is faced to the image bearing member and is supplied with an oscillating bias voltage to form an oscillating electric field in a developing zone, the improvement residing in: that a maximum Vu1max of a potential difference Vu1 between an image portion potential of the latent image and a potential of the developer carrying member in a transfer phase of the oscillating electric field, is larger than a maximum Vr1max of a potential difference Vr1 therebetween in a back-transfer phase thereof; that a maximum Vu2max of a potential difference Vu2 between a non-image portion potential of the latent image and a potential of the developer carrying member in the transfer phase of the oscillating electric field, is not less than a maximum Vr2max of a potential Vr2 therebetween in the back-transfer phase thereof; that integration Iu2, with time, of the potential difference Vu2 is not more than integration Ir2, with time, of the potential difference Vr2.

Method of developing electrostatic latent image using oscillating bias

A developing apparatus includes a developer carrying member for carrying a magnetic developer. The developer carrying member is provided with a plurality of magnetic poles. The apparatus also includes a regulating member for regulating the layer thickness of the developer on the developer carrying member, and an elastic rotatable member, disposed upstream of a developer regulating position of the regulating member with respect to a movement direction of the developer carrying member, for supplying the magnetic developer onto the developer carrying member. A surface of the elastic rotatable member is composed of unicellular foamed material.

Developing apparatus having rotatable developer supply member for

A developing apparatus includes a movable developer carrying member for carrying a layer of a developer containing toner particles and magnetic carrier particles to a developing zone, the toner particles and magnetic carrier particles being charged to opposite polarities; a stationary magnet disposed on a side of the developer carrying member opposite the image bearing member, the magnet forming a magnetic brush wherein the developer is contactable to the image bearing member in the developing zone; a voltage source for producing an oscillating electric field in the developing zone by application of an oscillating bias voltage to the developer carrying member; wherein the oscillating bias voltage satisfies a maximum Vu1max of a potential difference Vu1 between an image portion potential of the electrostatic image and a potential of the developer carrying member in the transfer phase of the oscillating electric field, is larger than a maximum Vr1max of a potential difference Vr1 therebetween in the back transfer phase; a time integration Iu1 of the potential difference Vu1 is larger than a time integration Ir1 of the potential difference Vr1; a maximum Vu2 max of a potential differnece Vu2 between a non-image portion potential of the electrostatic latent image and a potential of the developer carryign member in the transfer phase of the oscillating electric field, is not less than a maxiumu Vr2max of a potential difference Vr2 therebetween in the back transfer phase; and a time integration Iu2 of the potential difference Vu1 is not more than a time integration Ir2 of the potential difference Vr2.

Developing apparatus for developing electrostatic latent image using two

The present invention relates to a developing device in an image forming apparatus which uses electrophotography, and more particularly, to a developing device which use fuzzy inferring to control a supply of a developer and provides an optimal developer supply even if a plurality of state quantities exist. Furthermore, the present invention relates to an image forming apparatus which adopts such a developing device using the fuzzy inferring.

Image forming apparatus including toner supplement means

A corona discharging apparatus is adapted to vibrate a corona discharge wire and/or grid wires by the use of a vibrating element to remove foreign matters deposited on the corona discharging wire and/or grid wires.

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Yokohama, Japan

Keishi Osawa