Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Naoki Ohnishi

Manabu Furuki

Koji Fukushima

Yoshihiro Maekawa

Jin Kasono

Masato Ono

Minoru Rokutan

Takafumi Koide

Masataka Kuribayashi

Hiroshi Takayama

Hiroyuki Miura

Michiaki Yasuno

Toyofumi Inoue

Yoshinari Ueno

Eiji Funabashi

Kazuo Sueyoshi

An image forming apparatus includes: an image bearing body on which surface an image is formed and borne; an image forming section that forms the image; a transfer device that transfers the formed image to a transferring body; a cleaning member that comes into contact with the surface of the image bearing body to scrape an adhesion substance after the image is transferred; a storage tank in which the removed adhesion substance is stored; a damming member that obstructs a region between the cleaning member and the storage tank to temporarily dam the adhesion substance moving from the cleaning member to the storage tank on the cleaning member side, the damming member including overlapped members having openings, the members including a movable member that is slidable with respect to other member; and a driving section that drives the movable member to change an overlapping amount between the openings.

Image forming apparatus, cartridge, and cleaning device

An image forming apparatus containing an image holding member, a contact-type charger for charging a surface of the image holding member, an exposure unit for forming an electrostatic latent image by exposing the charged surface of the image holding member, a developing unit for developing the electrostatic latent image with a spherical toner to obtain a toner image, and a transfer member for electrostatically transferring the toner image from the surface of the image holding member onto a transfer material. A number of toner particles remaining on the surface of the image holding member before passing through an abutting portion between the image holding member and the contact-type charger is in a range of 100 to 400 per unit area (mm).

Image forming apparatus and a process cartridge which is attachable and detachable from the image forming apparatus

An image forming device which is capable of preventing generation of toner filming and obtaining a stable image quality without defects over a long period and which is environmentally friendly. The image forming device, for forming an image with a spherical toner, includes image holding members, contact type charging member, exposing member, developing member, and transfer member. A toner shape change ratio (Tt) of deformed toner particles passed between the contacting portions of the image holding members and the charging member is in a range of 50 to 100 percent.

Image forming device

The present invention provides an electrostatic charging member excellent in dispersibility of electrically-conducting agent and uniformity in resistance which causes no contamination of the material to be charged for a prolonged period of time. The present invention relates to an electrostatic charging member which electrostatically charging uniformly the surface of a material to be charged such as photoreceptor and dielectric material while pressing the material. An electrostatic charging member 1 has a two-layer structure comprising an electrically-conductive elastic material layer 1b formed on an electrically-conductive substrate 1a, and a resistance-controlling layer 1c covering the elastic material layer 1b. The resistance-controlling layer 1c comprises an electrically-conducting agent such as carbon black having a pH value of not more than 6 dispersed in an amine-modified polyurethane resin as a base polymer. The amine-modified polyurethane resin preferably comprises an amine component incorporated therein in an amount of from 0.02 to 1.0 mmol per g of the resin. The thickness of the resistance-controlling layer 1c preferably falls within the range of from 1 to 50 .mu.m.

Electrically-conductive member and image forming apparatus using the same

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Minami-ashigara, Japan

Naoki Ohnishi