Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.

Konica Corporation

Kunio Ito

Masakazu Fukuchi

Noriyoshi Tarumi

Kiyoshi Kimura

Yukio Okamoto

Tadashi Miwa

Hiroshi Kojima

Hiroyuki Nomori

Takeshi Tanaka

Masami Akiyama

Shizuo Morita

Meizo Shirose

Shunji Matsuo

Jiro Takahashi

Hiroshi Fuma

Hiroyuki Takagiwa

Katsuaki Komatsu

Tsuneo Wada

Yoshiyuki Ichihara

Shinichi Nishi

Shozo Kikugawa

Ken Nakamura

Takahira Kasuya

Takemasa Namiki

Haruo Itakura

Noboru Hatakeyama

Kazushi Hayakawa

Ken-ichi Kishi

Yoshio Takeuchi

Hiroyuki Moriguchi

Akira Nishiwaki

Tadashi Izawa

Keiichi Mori

Keiji Sato

Kouichi Gunzi

Yasumasa Numata

Yasuo Morohoshi

Kunihiro Yamauchi

Yoshitami Ono

Hitoshi Mitake

Norihiro Wakui

Takao Yamaguchi

A method of manufacture an ink jet head in which an ink is jetted from a nozzle hole by applying an electric voltage to an electrode so as to deform ink chambers divided by a partition wall. The method includes the steps of providing plural piezoelectric base plates having polarization side by side on a first non-piezoelectric plate, forming plural grooves for the ink chambers on the piezoelectric base plates and at connecting portions where each edge of the plural piezoelectric base plates provided side by side comes to face other edge; and mounting a second non-piezoelectric base plate on the plural piezoelectric base plates as so to cover the plural grooves so that the ink chambers divided by the partition wall are formed.

Method of manufacturing ink jet head

A copying apparatus includes a copy condition setting unit for setting copy conditions such as a copy count, a copy density, and a magnification. A standard mode setting unit initially sets the copy conditions upon starting of the apparatus to predetermined initial values, and a frequency calculating unit calculates a setting frequency of each copy condition set by the copy condition setting unit and the standard mode setting unit. When the frequency calculated by the frequency calculating unit exceeds a predetermined value, a correction unit corrects the corresponding copy condition to have the initial value set by the standard mode setting unit.

Copying apparatus

The invention provides an improved color image reader in which the document having a color original image is irradiated by a light source moving relatively on such document and the reflected light is introduced into a single unit including a lens and a color separator so that the color original image is separated into plural color component images. The plural color component images are respectively read and photo-electrically converted into plural signals by CCD's. In such arrangement, the light source is positioned at the upper side of the optical axis of the lens and the CCD's are disposed at the lower side of the axis. The color separator can form the plural color component images on the same plane.

Color image reader having a lens and prism incorporated into a single

A multicolor image forming apparatus wherein a plurality of developing devices for forming a multicolor image are integrally supported by a support member which can be inserted into and withdrawn from an apparatus body, and a plurality of resupply devices for replenishing toner particles are mounted on each of the developing devices. Each of the developing devices and each of the resupply devices corresponding to each of the developing devices are automatically connected to and disconnected from each other, when the support member is inserted into and withdrawn from the apparatus body. The support member further supports an image retainer and if necessary a cleaning member integrally.

Multicolor image forming apparatus

A recording apparatus having an image carrier and a heated intermediate transfer member is disclosed. The improvement is the addition of a shielding member of porous metal for preventing water vapor and/or heat from reaching the surface of the image carrier, wherein the shielding member has a trapping capability for condensing and trapping the water vapor.

Recording apparatus having water vapor removing or preventing means

A cleaning member for an intermediate transfer member of a reproducing apparatus for transferring a toner image formed on a toner image forming member to the intermediate transfer member and further transferring the toner image to a subsequent transfer material from the intermediate transfer member, wherein the cleaning member has an outer layer of a porous or fibrous substrate and an outer surface of the toner, a resin identical with the toner or a resin compatible with the resin, or the cleaning member has an outer layer of adiabatic elastic material and a thin metallic outer surface layer.

Cleaning roller intermediate transfer member

A developer for developing an electrostatic latent image comprising colored electroscopic particles and at least one silicon dioxide powder having its particles made hydrophobic with a specified organosilicon compound is disclosed. Silicon atoms in said organosilicon compound are bonded to silicon atoms on the surface of individual silicon dioxide particles through oxygen atoms. At least one organic group in the organosilicon compound has a total carbon number of 8 or more and is a saturated or unsaturated aliphatic organic group with at least 5 carbon atoms or an organic compound having a hydrocarbon ring. In a preferred embodiment, such a silicon dioxide powder is used in combination with another silicon dioxide powder whose particles are rendered hydrophobic by an organosilicon compound wherein any of the organic groups present has a total carbon number of 7 or less and is a saturated or unsaturated organic group with not more than 4 carbon atoms or an organic group having a hydrocarbon ring.

Developer for electrostatic latent image and method of forming image

A recording apparatus wherein an electrostatic latent image on an electrostatic latent image retaining member is developed into a visible image by means of a developer transported on the surface of a developer carrier having at least a magnet movably provided therein. At least a part of the electrostatic latent image retaining member is constituted by a magnetic material.

Developing electrophotographic image using magnets and magnetic material

A recording apparatus for electrostatic images comprising a photoreceptor, an intermediate transfer substance and a means for heating toner images transferred onto said intermediate transfer substance and transferring again and fixing them onto a transfer material, characterized in that there are provided a means for detecting a temperature of aforesaid photoreceptor and a means for keeping the temperature of said photoreceptor within a fixed range of T.sub.1 through T.sub.2.

Recording apparatus for electrostatic images

A vapor source-holding container has an opening smaller than the evaporating area of the material held in the container and a wall portion in contact with the material and having an emissivity lower than the external surface of the wall portion not in contact with the material.

Vapor source holding container

A toner supply controlling device wherein the rate of supply of toner is altered according to information from a monitoring device for monitoring the continuation status of the supply of toner, when the supply of toner is conducted continuously beyond a prescribed level. The monitoring device also monitors the status of a continued stoppage of the supply of toner and, when the stoppage continues beyond a prescribed period of time, the changed rate of supply of toner is returned to the original rate.

Toner supply controlling device

The present invention is such that in a recording apparatus comprising a toner image carrier and an intermediate image transfer material which receives the toner image transferred from the image carrier and then transfers the toner image onto the subsequent transfer sheet material (recording sheet), and an image transfer section for transferring the toner image onto the moving transfer sheet material comprising a transfer roller and pressure roller pressing thereon, the recording apparatus has the following pre-heating means comprising a heat member and a pressing member which is located at a position prior to the transfer section and which, brings the subsequent transfer sheet material into close contact with or presses the subsequent transfer sheet material against the periphery of the pressure roller, the member being provided at least on its side facing the transfer sheet material with a heat-resistant, elastically deformable porous material.

Recording apparatus

In a method for the formation of images such as an electrophotographic method in which toners are used, when a heat roller is used for fixing toner images, the durability and the heat efficiency of the heat roller is improved reducing the wall thickness of the cylindrical metal of the heat roller, shortening the warming-up time, using a material having a substantial Young's modulus, and by shortening the outer diameter of the cylindrical metal, respectively. With respect to toners specifically used for the above, stains on an image carrier are prevented by making use of a binder that is fused at a heating temperature of the heat-fixing roller and is increased in the elasticity of the toner at the same temperature or higher. Such binders may be obtained by copolymerizing a polyhydric alcohol and/or a polyhydric amine, and a polyhydric carboxylic acid.

Method for the formation of images

A developing device for use in an electrophotographic copying machine or electrostatic recording apparatus includes a stirring blade for mixing the developer. The driven shaft driving the stirring blade is intermittently revolved in a reverse direction to the main driving shaft directly connected to the developing sleeve by a mechanism incorporated between the main shaft and the driven shaft.

Developing device

There is provided a process for preparing a photosensitive plate for printing which comprises providing a heat-depositable fine powder having a constant directional size of 0.5-40.mu. onto the surface of a photosensitive plate for printing at a ratio of 0.005-0.5 g. of the said powder per m.sup.2 of the said plate to uniformly disperse and adhere the said powder onto the said surface, while preheating the right side (side on which powder adheres) and/or the reverse side of the said plate upon providing said powder or before or after providing, and subsequently contacting the right side of the said plate with a heating roll having a high releasing surface, whereby the said fine powder is fused and fixed on onto the surface of the said plate.

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Hachioji, Japan

Kunio Ito