Pfu Limited

Yoshiaki Kawamoto

Masanobu Hongo

Masanari Takabatake

Motoharu Ichida

Satoshi Miyamoto

Seiichi Takeda

Jiyun Du

Yutaka Nakashima

Akihiko Inamoto

Satoru Moto

Hitoshi Terashima

Hideaki Shibata

Shigeki Uesugi

Tadashi Nishikawa

Tatsuo Nozaki

Yasuhiko Kishimoto

Tadasuke Yoshida

Yoshiaki Fujimoto

Satoshii Moriguchi

The present invention provides a toner recycling control system which stably feeds a liquid developer of an appropriate concentration to a liquid developing apparatus employing a high-viscosity liquid developer; appropriately adjusts the concentration of residual developer collected after development and after transfer; and feeds the adjusted developer to the developing apparatus. The toner recycling control system collects a post-development residual developer from a developer-bearing body and a post-transfer residual developer from an image-bearing body; performs developer concentration adjustment to yield an adjusted developer; and feeds the adjusted developer back to the developer-bearing body. Thus, the toner recycling control system includes a concentration adjustment tank which stores the collected developer and is replenished with a concentrated developer and carrier liquid for developer concentration adjustment; and a buffer tank which receives and stores a liquid developer which has undergone concentration adjustment in the concentration adjustment tank. Once adjusted to an appropriate concentration, the liquid developer is fed to the developer-bearing body from the buffer tank.

Toner recycle control system of electrophotographing device using viscous liquid developing solution

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Kanazawa, Japan

Yoshiaki Kawamoto