Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Takayuki Kanazawa

Shunsuke Mizukoshi

Takuya Kitamura

Yuji Kawaguchi

Shuhei Tokiwa

Nobuo Oshima

Kazuhisa Shida

Yuta Isobe

Kentaro Kawata

Kentarou Kawata

Masanori Tanaka

Motoki Adachi

Jun Miura

Taichi Sato

Takayoshi Kihara

Takeshi Yamamoto

Hiroki Tanaka

Masaaki Matsushita

Makoto Fukatsu

Masanori Seki

Takashi Mukai

Kuniaki Tamagaki

Akihisa Matsukawa

Makoto Tokudome

Keigo Mizusawa

Keiji Miyazaki

Hiroomi Matsuzaki

Koji Wada

Tetsuo Uesugi

Tomoo Akizuki

Kojiro Yasui

Takahiro Kawamoto

Masahiko Suzumi

Kohei Matsuda

Tatsuo Fujisaki

Junichi Matsumura

Takayuki Namiki

Tomonori Matsunaga

Shuhei Kawasaki

Tatsuya Kinukawa

Hideo Kihara

Takashi Kase

Yusuke Nakazono

Masaki Furutani

Ryo Morihara

Kazunori Hashimoto

Yusuke Usui

Kenji Shindo

Takeharu Nakada

Junichi Kubota

Provided is a microchannel device, which has high hydrophobicity, high mechanical strength, and safety and also has high solvent resistance, and thus has wider applicability. The microchannel device includes a porous substrate having formed therein channel walls each containing a cyclic olefin copolymer that is a copolymer of an alkene and a cyclic olefin.

Microchannel device

An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearing member, a developing member, a transfer member, and a brush contacting a surface of the image bearing member in a contact portion downstream of a transfer portion and upstream of a developing portion with respect to a rotational direction of the image bearing member. The toner which is not transferred onto a toner image receiving member is collected by the developing member. In a charging series, the toner is positioned on the same side as a normal charge polarity of the toner relative to the brush. In the contact portion, a maximum value of a contact pressure of 0.7 gf/mmor more and 3.5 gf/mmor less, a maximum contact area ratio is 18% or more and 74% or less, and a Clark-Evans index of the brush is 1 or more.

Brush having a higher contact pressure with an image bearing member at an upstream end of the brush and image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a charging member, an exposure unit, a developing unit including a developer carrying member and a regulating member, a transfer member, a counting portion, a driving portion, and a controller. The controller carries out control so as to perform an image forming operation capable of forming a developer image, on the image bearing member, to be transferred onto a recording material and a non-image forming operation in which the developer image to be transferred onto the recording material is not formed on the image bearing member. Depending on each of count values in a plurality of regions acquired by the counting portion in a predetermined period, the controller controls the driving portion so as to change a rotation amount of the developer carrying member in a developing rotation operation for rotating the developer carrying member during the non-image forming operation.

Image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearing member, a charging member, a developing member, a transfer member, an exposure unit, and a controller. The controller executes a preparatory operation in which, before an image forming operation, rotation of the image bearing member is started and a charging voltage and a developing voltage are increased stepwisely. In the preparatory operation, the controller carries out control so as to start application of the charging voltage at a voltage value not less than a discharge start voltage of the charging member before a surface region of the image bearing member positioned in a developing portion at a time of a start of the rotation of the image bearing member reaches a charging portion in a state in which a surface of the image bearing member is exposed to light by the exposure unit.

The present disclosure provides a method for producing a microchannel device, which can form a channel that has high hydrophobicity, high solvent resistance as well, and also resistance to heat and damage, on demand with high accuracy, and produces the microchannel device at a low cost, while having high productivity. The method for producing a microchannel device includes: forming a channel pattern from a hydrophobic resin on a porous substrate by an electrophotographic method; melting the channel pattern by heat to allow the channel pattern to permeate into the porous substrate, thereby forming a channel in the inside of the porous substrate.

Method for producing microchannel device

In an image forming apparatus of a direct transfer system, when in a region where a transfer nip portion of a photosensitive drum is formed, a region in which the toner image can be formed is defined as a first region, and a region where the recording medium does not pass while the recording medium is conveyed by the transfer nip portion is defined as a second region, in forming the toner image on the recording medium, the photosensitive drum enters the transfer nip portion in a state where the second region of the photosensitive drum includes a region in which an absolute value of a surface potential is smaller than an absolute value of a surface potential of a region in which the toner image is not formed in the first region.

Image forming apparatus configured to minimize sheet edge soiling

A cleaning device, including: a cleaning frame; a cleaning member having one end and the other end, an image bearing member being capable of rotating and bearing a developer image formed of a developer so as to remove the developer remaining on the image bearing member after transfer of the developer image from the image bearing member; and a sheet member having flexibility and having one end and the other end; wherein a work function W (D) of the developer and a work function W (S) of the sheet member satisfy 0&#x2264;W(D)&#x2212;W(S)&#x2264;0.23 and the developer includes inorganic particles, and at least one kind of the inorganic particles has an average primary particle diameter of 50 nm or larger.

Cleaning device for removing a developer, process cartridge and image forming apparatus

A cleaning device has: a cleaning frame; a cleaning member which, after transfer through contact with an image bearing member, removes a developer remaining on the image bearing member; and a sheet member having flexibility and coming into contact with the image bearing member at an upstream side of a contact position between the cleaning member and the image bearing member in the rotation direction of the image bearing member. An external additive is an inorganic salt having a charging polarity on the positive side with respect to the developer, and work functions &#x3a6;(S), &#x3a6;(A), &#x3a6;(T) of the sheet member, the external additive and the developer satisfy 0&#x2264;|&#x3a6;(A)&#x2212;&#x3a6;(S)|&#x3c;0.57; and &#x3a6;(A)&#x3c;&#x3a6;(T).

Cleaning device for image bearing member, process cartridge and image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a charging member, a charging voltage source, an electrostatic image forming portion, a developing member, a developing voltage source, a transfer portion, a cleaning member, and a controller. The controller effects control so that a peak-to-peak voltage of an AC component of a charging voltage satisfying the following relationship is applied to the charging member to execute a toner supplying operation: 2Vth (V)&#x2264;Vpp1 (V)&#x2264;(2Vth+200) (V), where a discharge start voltage of a DC component of a charging voltage between the image bearing member and the charging member is Vth (V), and the peak-to-peak voltage of the AC component applied during execution of the toner supplying operation is Vpp1 (V). A peak-to-peak voltage of the AC component applied during image formation is larger than the peak-to-peak voltage Vpp1 (V).

An image forming apparatus including: a charging member configured to charge a photosensitive member at a charging portion by a charging voltage in which an alternate-current voltage is superimposed on a direct-current voltage; a transfer member configured to transfer a toner image formed on the photosensitive member to a recording material at a transfer portion; and a controller configured to control the charging voltage, a predetermined area of the photosensitive member passing through the transfer portion during a trailing edge of the recording material passing through the transfer portion, wherein the controller controls a value of a peak-to-peak voltage of the alternate-current voltage when the predetermined area passes through the charging portion to be larger than a value of a peak-to-peak voltage when an area that becomes the image area other than the predetermined area passes through the charging portion.

A configuration in which an opening is covered with a plurality of partition members is provided, and timings of causing the partition members to move are differentiated, so that torque is reduced.

Developer container, developing device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus

Provided is a developer container, including: a frame body having an opening; a sealing member configured to seal the opening; an unsealing member configured to unseal the opening by moving the sealing member and accommodated inside the frame body; and a part of the sealing member peelably bonded to an outer peripheral edge of the opening on an opposite side of the unsealing member with respect to the opening.

The disclosed structure includes a belt-shaped conveying member configured to convey developer. The conveying member includes a partitioning portion, which is a partition for developer contained in a casing with respect to a conveying direction in which the developer is conveyed, wherein, when the developer container is new, a first developer amount which is an amount of the developer contained at an upstream side that is upstream of the partitioning portion in the conveying direction, is larger than a second developer amount which is an amount of the developer contained at a downstream side that is downstream of the partitioning portion in the conveying direction.

Developer container, development apparatus, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus

A developer container includes a container, provided with an opening and configured to accommodate a developer; a sealing member configured to cover the opening; and an unsealing member configured to unseal the opening by moving the sealing member. The sealing member opposes the container at a central opposing portion positioned in a central side and at an end opposing portion positioned at an end side with respect to a longitudinal direction of the unsealing member. The sealing member and the container are bonded to each other at bonding portion which is at least a part of the central opposing portion. The bonding force at the bonding portion of the central opposing portion is larger than a bonding force between the sealing member and the container at the end opposing portion.

Developer container, cartridge and image forming apparatus

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Yokohama, Japan

Takayuki Kanazawa