Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Minebea Company, Limited

Manabu Mochizuki

Tsuneo Kurotori

Katsuhiro Echigo

Kenzo Ariyama

Ichiro Tsuruoka

Kenji Kojima

Itsuo Ikeda

Mayumi Miyao

Hajime Oyama

Kohji Suzuki

Hiroshi Tanabe

Teruyuki Ohnuma

Kazuhiko Yuuki

Noriyuki Usui

Kenji Karashima

Minoru Iwamoto

Kentaro Matsumoto

Hiroaki Takenouchi

Asami Mae

Tuneo Kurotori

Masahide Harada

Seiichi Miyakawa

Masakuni Konja

Yuichi Kobayashi

Kohichi Yamazaki

Kazuo Kobayashi

Nobuyuki Yanagawa

Shinji Tamaki

Shigeru Suzuki

Tsutomu Watanabe

Shinichi Kuramoto

Yoshihiro Arai

Takeshi Saitoh

Susumu Tatsumi

Chikara Imai

Setsuo Soga

Mitsuo Tanaka

Kouji Suzuki

Kiyoshi Ohshima

Takeshi Saito

Yuji Sawai

Satoru Ishikake

Taro Kimura

Yukihiro Ohno

Kazuaki Tagawa

Satoshi Shinguryo

Yoshihiro Sugiyama

Junichiro Hashimoto

Toshiharu Hasegawa

Kazuhiko Yuki

Haruhiko Fukuda

Kazuyuki Kato

Mitsuhiro Nonaka

Shoji Kuroishi

Shin-ichi Kamiyama

Hajime Takanashi

Masato Jinbo

Ichirio Tsuruoka

Kenzou Ariyama

Hazime Oyama

Yoshio Sato

Yoshio Kudo

Takashi Ishizuka

Tsuneo Kunotori

An image forming apparatus includes a first fixing device that applies heat to a non fixed toner image and a second fixing device arranged downstream of the first fixing device, which applies pressure and fixes the non-fixed toner image onto a recording member.

Image forming apparatus including a fixing device configured to apply heat and method thereof

A rotor ring and an armature for use in a toothed electromagnetic clutch or a toothed electromagnetic clutch brake. A method of manufacturing rotor rings and armatures used in toothed electromagnetic clutch or a toothed electromagnetic clutch brakes.

Toothed electromagnetic clutch brake

The invention relates to an image forming device and method therefor solving the subject matter that, if the linear speed of the developing solution carrier for that of the latent image carrier is lowered in order to secure the development capacity, the line image is deteriorated and there occurs a troublesome matter such as the blanking at the halftone rear edge. Such image forming device of the present invention is provided with a two-component magnetic brush type developing apparatus in which the developing bias composed of the DC bias and the AC bias superposed thereon is applied to the developing apparatus, and the latent image formed on the latent image carrier is developed with the two-component developing solution including the magnetic toner and the magnetic carrier. In the image forming device, the magnetic substance including percentage of the magnetic toner is set to 5 wt %.about.35 wt %.

Image forming device and method therefor

An image forming apparatus and method in which a transfer device is provided in a position separated from an image carrier. A transfer sheet is conveyed along and contacting a part of a circumferential surface of the image carrier facing the transfer device when transferring a toner image from the image carrier to the transfer sheet. A conveying guide is included to guide and covey the transfer sheet separated from the image carrier to a fixing unit. The conveying guide includes a guiding member to direct the conveying direction of the transfer sheet upward when the leading edge of the transfer sheet contacts the guiding member and to convey the transfer sheet at a part of the conveying guide or the guiding member in a position higher than the position of the leading edge of the transfer sheet contacting the conveying guide or the guiding member, so that the contact area between the transfer sheet and the image carrier increases, and so that the transfer sheet separates from the image carrier without a discharging of a charge on the transfer sheet.

Image forming apparatus with a device and a method to increase contact

An image forming apparatus in which a transfer device is provided in a position separated from an image carrier. A transfer sheet is conveyed along and contacting a part of a circumferential surface of the image carrier facing the transfer device when transferring a toner image from the image carrier to the transfer sheet. A conveying guide is included to guide and covey the transfer sheet separated from the image carrier to a fixing unit. The conveying guide includes a guiding member to direct the conveying direction of the transfer sheet upward when the leading edge of the transfer sheet contacts the guiding member and to convey the transfer sheet at a part of the conveying guide or the guiding member in a position higher than the position of the leading edge of the transfer sheet contacting the conveying guide or the guiding member, so that the contact area between the transfer sheet and the image carrier increases.

Image forming apparatus with a device to increase contact area between a

An image forming apparatus including a photoconductive drum, a charger which charges the photoconductive drum, an exposing device which irradiates light to the charged photoconductive drum for forming an electrostatic latent image on the photoconductive drum, a developing device which has two component developer which includes magnetic toner and magnetic carriers and a transfer charger to transfer the developed image to a sheet of paper. The bias voltages of the charger, the developing device and the transfer charger are applied from a common high voltage power source. A developing starting voltage of the developing device is higher than a residual voltage of the photoconductive drum.

Developing device for image forming apparatus

In a wet-type electrophotographic image formation method using an organic electrophotographic photoconductor constituted of an electroconductive support and a photoconductive layer formed thereon, the steps of (1) forming a latent electrostatic image on the photoconductive layer, and (2) developing the latent electrostatic image to a visible toner image with a developer comprising toner particles and a carrier liquid constituted of or including a silicone oil in which the toner particles are dispersed.

Wet-type electrophotographic image formation method

A wet-type image formation apparatus comprising a latent electrostatic image formation unit capable of forming on a latent-electrostatic-image-bearable photoconductive member a latent electrostatic image corresponding to an original image; and a wet-type development unit capable of developing the latent electrostatic image into a visible toner image with a liquid developer composed of (i) a carrier liquid comprising a petroleum aliphatic hydrocarbon and a silicone oil with a siloxane structure, and (ii) toner particles comprising a coloring agent and a binder resin, which are dispersed in the above-mentioned carrier liquid.

Wet-type image formation apparatus

A liquid developer for developing latent electrostatic images comprises (i) a carrier liquid comprising at least one component selected from the group consisting of a phenylmethyl silicone oil and a cyclic dimethyl polysiloxane, and (ii) toner particles dispersed in said carrier liquid, and images are formed by a wet-type electrophotographic image formation method using the liquid developer and thermally fixed to a transfer sheet.

Liquid developer for latent electrostatic images

An image forming apparatus which uses a liquid developer to produce a visible image from an image carrier is provided with a movable cleaning unit. This movable cleaning unit is moved in and out of contact with the image carrier. A tank stores the liquid developer which is fed to both the developing unit and to the cleaning unit and is provided with a mechanism for feeding the developing unit and the cleaning unit with the liquid developer which is so stored.

Electrophotographic copier with a developing device using a liquid

An image-receiving sheet for use with an electrophotographic method, including a transparent support and an overcoat layer formed thereon is disclosed, in which the overcoat layer (i) includes a thermoplastic resin which has a fluidification initiation temperature lower than that of a toner for image formation to be employed or that of a resin for use in said toner, and (ii) is white and opaque from being in a porous state. Furthermore, an electrophotographic method using the above image-receiving sheet is also disclosed.

Image-receiving sheet for electrophotography and electrophotographic

A control device for image forming equipment capable of reducing ozone ascribable to an image forming process and detecting failures of the equipment caused by the ozone. Mists are produced from a liquid developer which is a toner-dispersed carrier liquid containing silicone oil during developing, image transferring and fixing steps. The mists and the ozone are discharged to the outside of the equipment by a fan. A filter liquifies the mists and ozone by mixing them together. Errors are detected on the basis of ozone concentration which is sensed by an ozone concentration sensor.

Image forming apparatus with ozone detection and deodorizer

An image formation apparatus including a latent electrostatic image formation unit for forming on a latent-electrostatic-image-bearable photoconductive member a latent electrostatic image corresponding to an original image; a development unit for developing the latent electrostatic image into a visible toner image with a developer; an image-transfer unit for transferring the visible toner image from the photoconductive member to a transfer sheet; an image-fixing unit for fixing the visible toner image to the transfer sheet, including an image fixing roller, the surface of which is coated with a release agent comprising a silicone oil; a solvent mist generation unit for generating a solvent mist; and an ozone decomposing unit for trapping and decomposing ozone generated in the image formation apparatus by mixing the ozone with the solvent mist.

Apparatus for decomposing ozone by using a solvent mist

In a wet-type image formation apparatus, a latent electrostatic image formation unit; a wet-type development unit for developing a latent electrostatic image into a visible toner image with a liquid developer constituted of (a) a carrier liquid constituted of or including a silicone oil with a siloxane structure and (b) toner particles constituted of or including a coloring agent and a binder resin, which are dispersed in the carrier liquid; an image-transfer unit; and an image-fixing unit including a heat-application roller, the surface of which is coated with a release agent constituted of or including silicone oil with a siloxane structure.

Apparatus for forming and developing latent electrostatic images with

An image fixing unit for use in a wet-type electrophotographic copying machine capable of forming a latent electrostatic image on a photoconductor element, developing said latent electrostatic image to a visible toner image and transferring said visible toner image to a transfer sheet, including (a) a first image-fixing section for heating directly an unfixed toner image formed on a transfer sheet by a developer which includes a toner and a carrier liquid, thereby fixing the toner image to the transfer sheet, the transfer sheet having a carrier liquid absorbing capacity A or B with respect to the carrier liquid, where A&gt;B; (b) a second image-fixing heating section for minimizing the content of the carrier liquid in the developer by which the toner image is formed, thereby fixing the toner image to the transfer sheet by application of heat thereto; and (c) a switching device for selectively making operable at least one of the first image-fixing heating section or the second image-fixing heating section, depending upon the carrier liquid absorbing capacity of the transfer sheet.

Electrophotographic wet-type image fixing unit for use with copy paper

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Yokohama, Japan

Manabu Mochizuki