Casio Computer Co., Ltd.

Casio Electronics Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Masaaki Dohi

Shigeru Shimizu

Yoji Kuriyama

Tadao Yamamoto

Toshiro Honda

Tetsuya Abe

Mitsugu Oishi

Takeo Hirono

Shinichi Hisatomi

Mitsuo Hayashi

Nobuaki Maekawa

A method of forming an image without cleaning on the basis of repeated electrophotographic process cycles. Each process cycle includes charging a surface of a photosensitive drum to a predetermined polarity, and irradiating the charged surface of the photosensitive drum with light which carries image information, thereby forming a latent image corresponding to the image information. The latent image is visualized by using a dry developer material, and the visualized image is transferred from the surface of the photosensitive drum onto a transfer medium. The developer material contains a transfer accelerator (hydrophobic silica or light-transmitting fine powder) for improving efficiency for transfer of the visualized image onto the transfer medium.

Method of forming electrophotographic image

The present invention relates to a cleaning apparatus for use in a photocopying apparatus. The cleaning device comprises a grounded conductive fur brush for removing residual toners on a photosensitive drum and a conductive retrieval roll for retrieving the toners caught in the fur brush, a predetermined bias voltage being applied to conductive retrieval roll. The cleaning device further includes a scraping means for scraping the toner transferred to said conductive retrieval roll.

Cleaning device

The cleaning device includes a conductive fur brush for removing toner remaining on an image carrier, and a conductive retrieval roller for collecting the toner caught by the conductive fur brush. A bias voltage of a polarity reverse to the charged polarity of the toner and the absolute value of which is smaller than 200 V is applied to the conductive fur brush, and a bias voltage of the same polarity as that of the bias voltage applied to the conductive fur brush and the absolute value of which is larger by 200 to 500 V than that of the conductive fur brush is applied to the conductive collective roller.

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Chofu, Japan

Masaaki Dohi