Victor Company of Japan, Limited

Ryuji Horiuchi

Takashi Yamamura

Tsuyoshi Ono

Kazunori Namiki

Hiroki Nakagami

Masahiko Okabe

Toshiya Kobashi

Tatsuya Mukoyama

The present invention provides an image recording apparatus and an excess liquid developer removing device used in the apparatus. In the image recording apparatus, the recording medium wound around the rotary drum is developed by liquid developer supplied from a developing device. A dish provided on the developing device is displaced in the vicinity of the recording medium wound around the rotary drum by being declined in a predetermined angle to prevent the bubbles from generating. The excess liquid developer attached on the recording medium is removed by the air from a nozzle of a blower. The nozzle is displaced by a nozzle displacing device in the vicinity of a developing electrode for supplying the liquid developer only in the midst of developing to prevent the nozzle from being chocked up with toner contained in the liquid developer. Further, the excess liquid developer collected to an end of the recording medium by the air are removed by a part of the excess liquid developer absorbing member caused by the contact therewith.

Image recording apparatus by a wet type electro-photographic method and

The present invention discloses a wet type electro-photographic recording apparatus having a simple structure and a high quality without uneven density, and capable of miniaturizing the apparatus. Around a rotary drum, an exposing section, a pre-bath treatment portion and a developing portion are disposed. The exposing section is disposed on an upstream region in a rotating direction of the rotary drum with respect to a lower extreme position of the rotary drum, and in an upper portion of the rotary drum. The pre-bath treatment portion is disposed at a position between the upper portion where the exposing section is disposed and the lower extreme position of the rotary drum. The pre-bath treatment portion has at least a supply section provided at a high level position for dropping pre-bath liquid and a pre-bath coating section provided in a lower level position for coating the dropped pre-bath liquid on the electro-photograph recording sheet, whereby the electro-photographic recording is pre-bathed by using the high insulating liquid having phase solubility with electrically insulating liquid used as a wet type developer. The developing section having a developing electrode is disposed substantially close to the rotary drum and in an upstream in the rotating direction of the rotary drum with respect to the lower extreme position of the rotary drum.

Wet type electro-photographic recording apparatus

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Kanagawa, Japan

Ryuji Horiuchi