Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Yoshinari Ueno

Satoshi Shigezaki

Takafumi Koide

Masataka Kuribayashi

Taichi Yamada

Toyofumi Inoue

Katsumi Nukada

Takahiro Suzuki

Satoshi Inoue

Wataru Yamada

Masahiro Iwasaki

Takayuki Yamashita

Hirokazu Hamano

Masahiro Takagi

Katsuyuki Kitajima

Teppei Yawada

Yoshifumi Eri

Kazuhiko Yanagida

Masashi Ikeda

Norihito Fukushima

Yuka Ishihara

Yoshinori Nakano

Kazuhiro Koseki

Tatsuhiro Igarashi

Masahiro Uchida

Masaki Nakamura

Makoto Kamisaki

Manabu Furuki

Hidekazu Yaguchi

Mona Tasaki

Narumasa Sato

Hideyuki Akagi

Makoto Sakanobe

Kiyoshi Chatani

Naoki Ohnishi

Susumu Hiranuma

Toshimizu Ozawa

Eiji Nakai

Tomoki Kutsuwada

A cleaning device includes a removal member that removes residual objects from a surface of a target cleaning body by contacting with the surface in a linear manner and rubbing against the surface and forms a piled body which is constructed of a portion of the residual objects at a contact location, and a pressure device that presses the piled body to increase a strength of the piled body.

Cleaning device and image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes a toner image forming unit that forms and continuously transfers a toner image based on image data onto a transported sheet from the front to the rear in a sheet transport direction as the sheet is transported, a fixing unit positioned downstream of the toner image forming unit in the transport direction and that fixes the transferred toner image onto the sheet, an image determining unit that determines whether the formed toner image is a scattering toner image that causes toner scattering during the transfer, and a speed controlling unit that controls, when it is determined that the toner image is a scattering toner image, a transport speed of the sheet and a transfer speed of the toner image to the sheet such that the speeds are slower than those when it is determined that the toner image is not a scattering toner image.

Image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes: an image bearing body on which surface an image is formed and borne; an image forming section that forms the image; a transfer device that transfers the formed image to a transferring body; a cleaning member that comes into contact with the surface of the image bearing body to scrape an adhesion substance after the image is transferred; a storage tank in which the removed adhesion substance is stored; a damming member that obstructs a region between the cleaning member and the storage tank to temporarily dam the adhesion substance moving from the cleaning member to the storage tank on the cleaning member side, the damming member including overlapped members having openings, the members including a movable member that is slidable with respect to other member; and a driving section that drives the movable member to change an overlapping amount between the openings.

Image forming apparatus, cartridge, and cleaning device

An image forming apparatus is capable of performing image formation at a processing speed of not lower than 150 mm/s. An electrophotographic photoreceptor comprises a surface layer containing a siloxane-bases resin having charge-transporting properties and a crosslinked structure. A cleaning device comprises a brush member disposed such that the leading end of said brush comes in contact with said electrophotographic photoreceptor. The product (R&#xd7;W) of the surface roughness (R[&#x3bc;m]) of said electrophotographic photoreceptor after 200,000 rotations thereof and the wear rate of said electrophotographic photoreceptor per 1,000 rotations (W[nm]) is not greater than 20.

An image fixing apparatus and an image forming method capable of favorably fixing a toner containing a crystalline resin are provided. The image forming apparatus passes a transfer medium having unfixed images formed of the toner containing a crystalline resin between a heating member and a pressurizing member, thereby fixing the unfixed images, using a cooling unit that controls a surface temperature of the pressurizing member in which the surface temperature is controlled to a melting point of the crystalline resin +30&#xb0; C. or lower.

Image fixing apparatus with cooling unit and image fixing method

A cleaning blade for a latent image holding member, an apparatus for forming an image and a process for forming an image are provided at a low cost, in which even in an apparatus for forming an image using a spherical toner, good cleaning property of the latent image holding member is ensured irrespective to the temperature environment upon use without deteriorating an image quality. The cleaning blade for removing a remaining toner by making in contact with a latent image holding member under pressure, as well as an apparatus for forming an image and a process for forming an image using the same are provided. The cleaning blade contains an elastic material having a 300% modulus of about from 14,700 to 29,400 kPa and a tearing strength of about 68,600 N/m or more.

Cleaning blade for latent image holding member, apparatus for forming image and process for forming image

An image formation system where, when an intermediate transfer body B having a resistivity change layer B,whose volume resistivity lowers in a state in which predetermined physical stimulation (light application, etc.,) passes through an electricity removal area Q,after secondary transfer is executed, physical stimulation is given to the intermediate transfer body B for lowering the volume resistivity of the intermediate transfer body B and in this state, electricity of the intermediate transfer body B is removed.

Formation method, image formation system, and intermediate transfer body having a photoconductive resistivity change layer

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Minami-ashigara, Japan

Yoshinari Ueno