Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Yukio Nagase

Kazuhisa Kemmochi

Hiroshi Satomura

Hidemi Egami

Noboru Koumura

Tatsuo Takeuchi

Seiji Mashimo

Harumi Ishiyama

Nagao Hosono

Izumi Narita

Takeshi Ikeda

Hiroyuki Suzuki

Jun Hirabayashi

Yasunori Chigono

Yasukazu Ayaki

Isami Itoh

Tomohito Ishida

Yuichi Hashimoto

Masaru Hibino

Kenichiro Waki

Kazuo Yoshinaga

Kazunori Ueno

Akihiro Senoo

Masanori Yamada

Yoshinori Ikeda

Shinobu Arimoto

Yuji Sakemi

Akihiro Usami

Tetsuya Atsumi

Katsuhito Kato

Nobuyuki Itoh

Mamoru Tanaka

Masaki Kuribayashi

Kunitoshi Aoki

Nobuyuki Ito

Hajime Suzuki

Atsutomo Yoshizawa

Yoshinori Mochida

Masato Tanaka

Koichi Suzuki

Koichi Sato

Yutaka Inaba

Kenichi Takeda

Kiyoshi Sakai

Yasushi Miura

Teigo Sakakibara

Toshihiro Kikuchi

Akio Maruyama

Hajime Miyazaki

Masahiro Itoh

Shoji Amamiya

Yoshio Kashizaki

Toshinori Ando

Yoshihiko Hirose

Akihito Hosaka

Sono Gu

A toner amount measuring unit irradiates a toner image formed on an image carrying member with light, and an image capturing unit captures an image of a reflected waveform according to light reflected by the toner image. Then, an amount of applied toner is calculated based on the peak position or peak height of the reflected waveform in accordance with information associated with the density of the toner image to be formed.

Measuring apparatus, measuring method and image forming apparatus

The image forming apparatus has an image forming portion capable of forming an image on a transferring medium by the use of a hypochromatic toner and a hyperchromatic toner of substantially the same color. The image forming portion is provided with a developing device for developing with the hypochromatic toner and the hyperchromatic toner, wherein, in an image area in which the hyperchromatic toner and the hypochromatic toner are mixedly present, the recording rate of the hyperchromatic toner is 1/16, the minimum size Wmini of a toner image of the hyperchromatic toner is 50 &#x3bc;m or less on the transferring medium. Thereby, it is achieved to reduce graininess.

Image forming apparatus using hypochromatic toner and hyperchromatic toner

A color image forming apparatus forms an image using a deep toner and a pale toner at least for one color such that the pale toner is used to form an image in a high lightness area, and the pale toner and the deep toner are used in combination to form the image in a half tone area. A toner kit has a deep toner and a pale toner which are separated from each other. A method for forming an image uses the color image forming apparatus, the toner kit, and the deep toner and the pale toner. A high quality image can be formed while inhibiting graininess and roughness over a broad image area.

Toner kit, toner, method for forming an image, and image forming apparatus

The image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit capable of forming an image with a hypochromic toner and a hyperchromic toner of a substantially same hue, a first toner containing portion containing the hypochromic toner, a second toner containing portion containing the hyperchromic toner, and a density detecting unit which detects a density of an image formed with the hypochromic toner and the hyperchromic toner. Thus an image can be formed with the hypochromic toner and the hyperchromic toner of a substantially same hue.

Image forming apparatus with density detecting means

Provided is an image forming apparatus for forming a toner image including: a first light source emitting a beam corresponding to image information; a first photosensitive member; a first developing means for developing a latent image with a first toner; a second light source; a second photosensitive member; and a second developing means for developing a latent image with a second toner, in which the coloring agent contained in the first toner and the coloring agent contained in the second toner are substantially of the same hue, with the content of the coloring agent contained in the second toner being smaller than the content of the coloring agent contained in the first toner, and in which an oscillation wavelength of at least the first light source ranges from 370 to 500 nm. With the image forming apparatus structured as described above, an improvement in terms of granularity is achieved.

Image forming apparatus

An exposure apparatus performs exposure of a photosensitive body by an array of light emitting devices to form an image as a latent image thereon. The array of light emitting devices incorporate micro-optical cavities. The micro-optical cavities limit wavelengths of light emitted from the array of light emitting devices, so that the wavelength at a peak of emitted light is in a half width region of sensitivity versus wavelength of the photosensitive body.

Exposure apparatus with an array of light emitting devices

An exposure unit includes a luminescent device array including a pair of electrodes and an organic compound layer disposed between the electrodes, and a microlens array arranged corresponding to the luminescent device array. The exposure unit is used in an image forming apparatus using an electrophotographic system.

Exposure unit for image forming apparatus using electrophotographic system, and electrophotographic image forming apparatus

A charging apparatus includes a charging member, to which a voltage is applicable, for charging a member to be charged; the charging member including: a flexible member for forming a nip with the member to be charged, wherein the flexible member is moved with a peripheral speed difference between surfaces of the flexible member and the member to be charged at the nip; and electroconductive particles in the nip.

IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING A MEMBER TO BE CHARGED, INJECTION CHARGING MEANS HAVING AN ELASTIC MEMBER FOR PRESS-CONTACTING THE MEMBER TO BE CHARGED, AND ELECTROCONDUCTIVE PARTICLES BETWEEN THE ELASTIC MEMBER AND THE MEMBER TO BE CHARGED

A light-emitting device is disclosed which includes a light-emitting element array formed by arranging a plurality of light-emitting elements, a driving unit for driving the light-emitting element array to emit light from each of the light-emitting elements, a memory unit for storing the number of light emissions for each light-emitting element of the light-emitting element array, and a control unit for controlling the driving unit based on the information stored in the memory unit so that the amount of light emitted from each light-emitting element is held constant. An exposure device employing the light-emitting device, and an image forming apparatus employing the exposure device are also disclosed.

Light-emitting device, exposure device, and image forming apparatus

An exposure device having an array of a plurality of light emitting elements composed of at least an anode layer, a cathode layer and one or more organic compound layers interposed between the anode layer and the cathode layer all of which are formed on a substrate. In the exposure device, the quantity of light emitted from each light emitting element is made uniform by controlling the light emitting area of each light emitting element. Therefore, the exposure device eliminates differences in the quantity of emitted light among the plurality of light emitting elements without using a special drive circuit.

Light emitting element array, exposure device and image forming apparatus

An electrophotographic apparatus includes an electrophotographic photosensitive member; a charger for charging the electrophotographic photosensitive member including a charging member supplied with a voltage and disposed in contact with the photosensitive member so as to form a nip with the photosensitive member to charge the photosensitive member; an exposure device; a developing device; and a transfer device. The photosensitive member includes a surface layer containing a charge-transporting material having an oxidation potential of 0.4-1.0 volt. Charging promoter particles are present at the nip between the photosensitive member and the charging member to injection-charge the photosensitive member. Because of the selection of the charge-transporting material and the presence of the charging promoter particles, the photosensitive member can be effectively injection-charged.

Electrophotographic apparatus and process cartridge

Provided is a light emitting apparatus capable of preventing light emitting elements made of an organic compound from being affected by moisture in an ambience, thereby increasing their lifetime, and suitably applicable to an exposure section of the electrophotographic method. Temperature sensors are set next to a light emitter array which is an array of many light emitting elements made of the organic compound. A drive control unit of the array is composed of CPU, ROM, RAM, and I/O ports. The CPU carries out control of each unit according to input data of image information etc. and also carries out pre-heat control for the light emitting elements. The temperature sensors detect the temperature of the light emitting elements and the CPU, receiving their detection output, turns the light emitting elements or a heating element provided separately, on and off so that a detected temperature value becomes a predetermined value in a waiting state without the input data. In the waiting state the light emitting elements generate heat per se to be kept at the predetermined temperature.

Light emitting apparatus with temperature control, exposure apparatus, and image forming apparatus

The exposure device of an image forming apparatus includes a light-emitting device array having light-emitting devices; a switching device array including switching devices connected to the light-emitting devices, the switching device array being divided into a plurality of groups; a first line group for connecting commonly to first terminals of switching devices of each of the groups; a second line group for connecting commonly to second terminals of switching devices of each of the groups; and a circuit for performing simultaneous light emission of the light-emitting device array to expose the photosensitive member.

Charging apparatus for charging a moving member to be charged including

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