Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co., Ltd.

Tsutomu Kubo

Toshihiko Oguchi

Ichiyoshi Saito

Tsutomu Uehara

Yukio Suzuki

Tsuyoshi Ueno

Toshiharu Nakagawa

An apparatus for forming a cloud of magnetic toner particles has a rotatable magnet roller with a number of magnetic poles disposed within a non-magnetic cylindrical sleeve. Magnetic toner particles are supplied from a hopper onto the sleeve. A magnetic bar is disposed above the sleeve. The rotation of the magnet roller causes the sleeve to carry magnetic toner particles thereon. When the magnetic toner particles carried approach to the magnetic bar, those become in a cloudy state.

Apparatus for forming a cloud of toner particles

A magnetic brush apparatus is provided with a hopper for supplying powdered one-component magnetic developer to a cylindrical sleeve housing a rotating magnet roller with a number of magnetic poles. The powdered magnetic toner supplied onto the sleeve surface is formed into a magnetic brush on the sleeve surface under control of alternating magnetic field generated by the magnet roller. The magnet brush is carried around the sleeve surface with rotation of the magnet roller. Outside the sleeve surface a predetermined distance is positioned a magnetic member which may be attached to the tip end of a doctor blade. The magnetic member disturbs the alternating magnetic field on the sleeve surface, thereby restricting the height of the powdered developer passing between the end of the magnetic member and the sleeve surface.

Magnetic brush apparatus for electrostatic printing system

This invention is concerned with a method for forming spherical particles of thermoplastic material, characterized by the step of blowing a stream of gas having thermoplastic particles dispersed therein from a peripheral region into a jet of pressurized hot gas to form the thermoplastic particles into uniform spherical particles. It also provides apparatus for carrying out the foregoing method which includes means for discharging a jet of pressurized hot gas from an outlet port and means for ejecting a stream of gas having thermoplastic particles dispersed therein from the periphery of the outlet port toward the jet of pressurized hot gas.

Method and apparatus for forming spherical particles of thermoplastic

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Yokohama, Japan

Tsutomu Kubo