Kao Corporation

Shin-ichiro Yasuda

Kuniyasu Kawabe

Mitsuhiro Sasaki

Koji Akiyama

Harumasa Yamasaki

Koji Kameyama

A method of forming fixed images including charging a photoconductor; exposing the photoconductor to light; developing an electrostatic latent image so that a toner is applied to the electrostatic latent image formed on the photoconductor to form a visible image; transferring the formed visible image to a recording medium; and fixing the transferred visible image onto the recording medium, such that the toner is a thermally dissociating encapsulated toner and the fixing process is carried out at a temperature of not less than 40.degree. C. and not more than 120.degree. C.

Apparatus for forming fixed images having encapsulated toner

A developing method of the present invention has the steps of forming a uniform layer of a nonmagnetic one-component toner on a developer carrying sleeve with a developer blade; rotating an electrostatic latent image forming member and the developer carrying sleeve; and applying the toner on the developer carrying sleeve onto an electrostatic latent image formed on the electrostatic latent image forming member. The toner used herein is an encapsulated toner having a heat-fusible core material and a shell formed thereon. By using this development for a nonmagnetic one-component toner of the present invention, clear images free from background can be stably formed for a large number of copying.

Method of development of nonmagnetic one-component toner and method for

A method of forming fixed images including uniformly charging a photoconductor, selectively exposing the photoconductor to light to form an electrostatic latent image, developing the electrostatic latent image with a thermally dissociating encapsulated toner to form a visible image, transferring the formed toner image to a recording medium, and fixing the transferred the toner image onto the recording medium, the fixing process being carried out at a temperature of not less than 40.degree. C. and not more than 120.degree. C. and by using a fixing roller exerting a nip pressure of less than 4 kg/cm.

Method of forming fixed images using encapsulated toner

Method of forming fixed images

The present invention is directed to a developing method of a magnetic encapsulated toner, which can be fixed even at a nip pressure of 0.01 to 0.1 kg/cm without a supply of silicone oil onto a surface of a heat roller, using a toner projection developing device. The fixing in the present invention is carried out at a temperature of not more than 120.degree. C. and at a nip pressure of 0.01 to 4 kg/cm. By using these methods, the miniaturization of the overall apparatus can be achieved.

Developing method and method for forming fixed images using magnetic

Method of forming fixed images using heated belt

A method of forming fixed images includes charging a photoconductor; exposing the photoconductor to light; applying a thermally dissociating encapsulated toner, or an encapsulated toner whose shell is made of amorphous polyester to an electrostatic latent image formed on the photoconductor, developing the electrostatic latent image to form a visible image; transferring the formed visible image to a recording medium having a softening point of 100.degree. C. to 200.degree. C.; and fixing the transferred visible image onto the recording medium at a temperature of not less than 80.degree. C. and not more than 120.degree. C. by using a fixing roller which exerts a nip pressure of from 0.1 to 4.0 kg/cm.

A method of forming fixed images including uniformly charging a photoconductor selectively exposing the photoconductor to light, developing an electrostatic latent image whereby a toner is applied to the electrostatic latent image formed on the photoconductor to form a visible image, transferring the formed visible image to a recording medium, and fixing the transferred visible image onto the recording medium, in which the toner is a thermally dissociating encapsulated toner, the photoconductor is a heat-resistant photoconductive film belt, and the transferring process and the fixing process are simultaneously carried out on the heat-resistant photoconductive film belt at a temperature of from 40.degree. to 120.degree. C.

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Osaka, Japan

Shin-ichiro Yasuda