Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Chiyoda Chemical Engineering Construction Co., Ltd.

Alaxala Networks Corporation

Michihiro Yoshida

Jiro Kinokuni

Takeshi Fujino

Kota Mori

Shota Soda

Toshio Kanai

Yuya Nagatomo

Teruo Sugiya

Yoshio Kogawa

Hiroshi Yanagioka

Hideo Idemura

Hiroshi Sugiyama

Mitsugu Kitamura

Masato Maejima

Hiroshi Yanagiako

Tomomi Suzuki

Zenji Mashino

Shin-ichi Shimizu

Masaki Onozaki

Satoru Kato

An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive member and a charging roller to which a direct current voltage is applied. A difference between a first potential (before charging) and a second potential (after charging) of a surface of the photosensitive member in an image forming operation is smaller than 100 V. The charging roller includes a shaft portion, an elastic layer provided on an outer periphery of the shaft portion, and a surface layer provided on an outer periphery of the elastic layer. A ten point height of roughness profile Rz (&#x3bc;m) and a root mean square slope R&#x394;q with respected to a surface of the charging roller satisfy Rz&#x2265;7 and R&#x394;q&#x2264;0.1.

Cartridge and image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive member, a charging roller, a cleaning roller, an urging member and an image forming portion. The charging roller has an outermost surface layer including an electroconductive resin material, first surface particles having an average particle size of more than 7 &#x3bc;m and less than 30 &#x3bc;m and second surface particles having an average particle size of more than 2 &#x3bc;m and less than 6 &#x3bc;m. The first and second surface particles are dispersed in the electroconductive resin material so as to form first projections and second projections, respectively. The cleaning roller cleaning roller includes a shaft portion and an elastic cleaning portion extending helically around the shaft portion and having a rectangular cross-section perpendicular to an extending direction thereof.

Image forming apparatus and cartridge having a charging roller with a surface layer including projections

An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive member having a surface having elastic deformation power of 47% or more, a charging roller forming a nip between itself and the photosensitive member, and an image forming portion. When a nip region corresponding to the nip is formed and then an area of independent contact portions between the charging member and a measuring contact member is measured, the following relationship is satisfied: (contact width X)&#xd7;(Contact area ratio &#x3b1;)&#x2264;0.1, where a length from a position of one end to a position of the other end of the nip region with respect to a direction perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the charging roller is the contact width X, and a ratio of a sum of areas of the independent contact portions to an entire area of a measuring region is the contact area ratio &#x3b1;.

Image forming apparatus and cartridge having charging roller

A charging roller includes a surface layer containing first and second surface particles and satisfying the following:6.0 (&#x3bc;m)&#x2264;&#x2264;18.8 (&#x3bc;m),&#x2003;&#x2003;iwhere Rz is a ten-point average roughness (&#x3bc;m) of a charging roller surface,7 (&#x3bc;m)&#x2264;&#x2264;20 (&#x3bc;m),&#x2003;&#x2003;iiwhere d is a thickness (&#x3bc;m) of the surface layer,9.8 (&#x3bc;m)&#x2264;1&#x2264;15.8 (&#x3bc;m) and 2.8 (&#x3bc;m)&#x2264;2&#x2264;5.2 (&#x3bc;m),&#x2003;&#x2003;iiiwhere D1 and D2 are average particle size (&#x3bc;m) of the first surface particles, and the second surface particles, respectively,3.0&#x2264;1/2&#x2264;5.6, and&#x2003;&#x2003;iv0.10&#x2264;1/(1+2)&#x2264;0.32,&#x2003;&#x2003;vwhere M1 is a total weight (mg) of the first surface particles per unit area of the charging roller surface, and M2 is a total weight (mg) of the second surface particles per unit area of the charging roller surface.

Charging roller, cartridge, image forming apparatus and manufacturing method of the charging roller

An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member bearing an electrostatic latent image formed based on image information in forming an image, an electrification member being in contact with a surface of the image bearing member to electrify the image bearing member, a service life determining portion determining whether or not a service life of the electrification member has come to its end based on information concerning an electrification time during which voltage is applied to the electrification member obtained by using a detection result of the environment detecting portion and information concerning an image ratio of a formed image obtained by using the detection result of the environment detecting portion, and an alarm portion issuing an alarm in response to a determination made by the service life determining portion that the service life of the electrification member has come to the end.

Image forming apparatus

A system manager sets a port connected to a specific device (for example, a router device) among a plurality of ports of a switch device as a reliable port. If a packet is received in the reliable port, the switch device manages an IP address and a MAC address of the router device by a reliable port information table. When a packet is received from a port not set as the reliable port, the switch device refers to the reliable port information table. At this time, when the received packet is an address resolution packet having impersonated a router device, the switch device discards the packet without transmitting the packet, thereby preventing a cyber attack on a terminal.

Communication device and communication control method in communication device

An image forming apparatus capable of suppressing deterioration of a charger although an amount of use of the charger is actually small is provided. For that purpose, the image forming apparatus executes simple control of discharge current control in which at least one charging bias smaller in number than number of kinds of test biases in full control of the discharge current control is applied to the charger after a power source is turned on and before an image formation start signal is inputted, and on the basis of a current detected by the detector when the charging bias is applied, selects one from a plurality of modes including a first mode in which a charging bias is set by executing the full control of the discharge current control and including a second member in which the charging bias determined by full control of discharge current control without executing the full control of the discharge current control.

An image forming apparatusincludes: a common voltage-applying unitthat applies a voltage to charging-assistant membersY,M, andC of a plurality of image forming portions PY, PM, and PC; and a control unit, at the start of applying a voltage to the charging-assistant members of the plurality of image forming portions by the voltage-applying unit, switches the absolute value of the applied voltage from a smaller first value to a larger second value when images are formed by the plurality of image forming portions.

An image forming apparatus includes: a drum; a charger; a developing portion; a transfer portion; a first adjuster; a second adjuster; and a controller for controlling the first and second adjuster. A first voltage is applied to the first adjuster during a period from a time when a rear end of a region in which an electrostatic image corresponding to a final image is to be formed passes through the first adjuster until a time when the rear end passes through the charger. The first voltage is lower in absolute value than a voltage applied to the first adjuster. A second voltage is applied to the second adjuster when a front end of a region of the drum opposing the first adjuster to which the first voltage is applied reaches the second adjuster. The second voltage is higher in absolute value than the voltage applied to the second adjuster.

An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a first toner charging member, provided downstream of a transfer device and upstream of a charging device with respect to a rotational direction of the image bearing member, for electronically charging toner remaining on the image bearing member, and a second toner charging member, provided downstream of the first toner charging member and upstream of the charging device with respect to the rotational direction, for electrically charging the toner remaining on the image bearing member by being supplied with a voltage of a polarity identical to a normal charge polarity of the toner. In addition, a controller controls application of a predetermined voltage to the first toner charging member, and a first AC voltage is applied to a developer.

Image forming apparatus having toner charging members

An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member; a brush roller, rotatable in a predetermined rotational direction, contacted to the image bearing member; and an applying device for applying a bias to the brush roller. The brush roller includes a shaft and a woven fabric brush including fibers planted in a strip-like base material, which is wound helically about the shaft with a helical winding gap. The woven fabric brush is subjected to fiber slanting processing so that the fibers of the helically wound woven fabric brush are slanted, so as to cover the helical winding gap, from a downstream side toward an upstream side with respect to a longitudinal direction in which a helically extending widthwise edge of the base material appears to be moving when the brush roller rotates in the predetermined rotational direction.

An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive member; a charging device for electrically charging the photosensitive member; an exposure device for exposing to light the photosensitive member charged by the charging device to form an electrostatic image on the photosensitive member; a developing device for developing the electrostatic image on the photosensitive member with toner to form a toner image; a transfer portion for transferring the toner image from the photosensitive member onto an image receiving member; a toner charging portion, disposed upstream of the charging device and downstream of the transfer portion with respect to a rotational direction of the photosensitive member, for electrically charging the toner remaining on the photosensitive member without being transferred onto the image receiving member; and control portion for controlling the charging device and the exposure device so that a stripe-shaped electrostatic image is repeatedly formed in substantially parallel to a longitudinal direction of the photosensitive member and discharges the toner, deposited on the toner charging portion, to the photosensitive member.

This invention is directed to a sparging method wherein efficient gas-liquid contact is obtained without causing sloshing by introducing and dispensing gas into the liquid only through openings in the side wall of a specially designed sparger which has a single row of openings in its side wall around the periphery thereof and an open end, the gas being introduced at a rate such that the distance l between the openings in the side wall and the liquid level on the gas introduction side is within a range represented by the formula:

Gas sparging method

A gas-liquid contacting apparatus for removing sulfur dioxide from a flue gas is provided which comprises a vessel for receiving therein a liquid aqueous absorbent in a continuous phase; gas sparger means having an opening means at one end thereof, the gas sparger means extending vertically from above the surface of the aqueous absorbent liquid and through the surface such that the opening means is positioned below the surface wherein the opening means comprises notch means formed in the side walls of the gas sparger means and an open end of the gas sparger means; air sparger means in the aqueous absorbent, below the gas sparger means; outlet means for the gas after it contacts the aqueous absorbent, the outlet means being located above the level of the aqueous absorbent; reactant inlet means into the vessel; aqueous absorbent inlet means into the vessel; and outlet means for the reaction products and spent aqueous absorbent.

Gas-liquid contacting apparatus

A method for removing sulfur dioxide from flue gases by simultaneous absorption and oxidation in an aqueous absorbent. An enclosed body of an aqueous liquid absorbent for the sulfur dioxide is provided and the flue gas is sparged into an upper portion of the liquid absorbent to form a first zone thereof. An oxygen-containing gas is introduced into a lower portion of the liquid absorbent to form a second zone of the liquid absorbent that is below the first zone of the liquid absorbent and which has an apparent density that is higher than that of the first zone. The oxygen-containing absorbent from the second zone is circulated to the first zone near the point of the flue gas introduction and an alkaline material reactive with the sulfur dioxide in the liquid absorbent is introduced into the body of liquid absorbent thereby fixing the sulfur dioxide in the liquid absorbent in the form of a sulfate. The sulfate is subsequently removed from the body of aqueous liquid absorbent. The method according to the invention can be carried out in a compact apparatus and achieves a high rate of desulfurization.

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Michihiro Yoshida