Abstract:
A destaticizer which is adapted to remove electric charges from the surface of a photoreceptor by exposing the photoreceptor surface to light. The destaticizer includes a light source, and a light guide member for generally uniformly guiding light from the light source to a light exposure area on the photoreceptor. In accordance with one embodiment, the light guide member is an elongated member, which has an end face serving as a light receiving face for receiving the light emitted from the light source, a light transmitting path for transmitting the light received by the light receiving face, and a plurality of reflecting portions arranged along the length of the light guide member for reflecting the light transmitted through the light transmitting path in a direction intersecting the length of the light guide member.
Abstract:
In a copying processing performed several times from the depression of a copy button of a copying machine until the surface potential of the photoreceptor drum is stabilized, a voltage sufficiently high for correcting the rise characteristic of the photosensitive layer on the drum surface is applied to a charger. A main circuit having a controlling portion to realize this corrects the output voltage of the high-voltage generating circuit which applies a high voltage to the charger to a voltage value necessary for the drum surface to be charged at a stable potential level. The main circuit charges the drum surface at the stable potential level necessary for development from copying of the first sheet.
Abstract:
A photosensitive composition for electrophotography comprising polyvinyl carbazole, a charge-generating organic pigment, and as a sensitizing agent a silicone oil, thereby enhancing the sensitivity of the resulting photosensitive layer and improving the aging characteristic thereof.
Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image carrying body having a surface on which a toner image is formed. A charger charges the surface body and a charge eliminator removes charge from the surface. The charge eliminator includes light sources to generate charge elimination light and a light guide to guide the charge elimination light onto the surface. The light guide includes a first portion to guide the charge elimination light onto an axial central portion of the image carrying body and a second portion to guide the charge elimination light onto axial end portions of the image carrying body. The second light guide portion allows charge elimination light that is incident on the first light guide portion to travel into the second light guide portion, but restricts charge elimination light that is incident on the second light guide portion from traveling into the first light guide portion.
Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image carrying body having a surface on which a toner image is formed. A charger charges the surface body and a charge eliminator removes charge from the surface. The charge eliminator includes light sources to generate charge elimination light and a light guide to guide the charge elimination light onto the surface. The light guide includes a first portion to guide the charge elimination light onto an axial central portion of the image carrying body and a second portion to guide the charge elimination light onto axial end portions of the image carrying body. The second light guide portion allows charge elimination light that is incident on the first light guide portion to travel into the second light guide portion, but restricts charge elimination light that is incident on the second light guide portion from traveling into the first light guide portion.
Abstract:
More than 100,000 pieces of copy are obtained, in an electrophotographic process using an amorphous silicon photosensitive material, by maintaining the atmosphere for the photosensitive material and effecting the developing and polishing of the surface of the photosensitive material in a manner such that X, the degree of surface oxidation of the amorphous silicon photosensitive material (SiO/SiC), and Y, the amount of deposition of discharge products (mol/cm.sup.2), satisfy the relationships (1) and (2);0.4.ltoreq.x.ltoreq.1.25 (1)Y.ltoreq.2.2.times.10.sup.-9.exp(-2.0 x) (2)By this method, image flow is prevented without permitting the life of the photosensitive material to decrease, and an image can be stably formed for extended periods of time.
Abstract translation:在使用非晶硅感光材料的电子照相方法中,通过保持感光材料的气氛并以使得感光材料的表面的显影和抛光以使得X,度 的非晶硅感光材料(SiO / SiC)的表面氧化,Y,放电产物的沉积量(mol / cm 2)满足关系式(1)和(2); 通过这种方法,可以防止图像流动,而不会使感光材料的寿命降低,并且 可以长时间稳定地形成图像。
Abstract:
An electrographic copying machine has a photoreceptor drum which moves so that a photosensitive layer on its surface is successively charged, exposed, developed and charge-removed. The photosensitive layer is made of an amorphous material. The drum surface is charged by a charger before a latent image is formed thereon through exposure. A voltage generator is provided which supplies the charger with a voltage to charge the drum surface. It takes time for the potential of the charged drum surface at the developing section to reach a predetermined potential from a potential higher than the predetermined potential due to a rise characteristic of the surface potential. A controller is provided which corrects an output voltage value of the voltage generator to a voltage value necessary for the drum surface to be charged at the predetermined potential in a predetermined number of charging operations performed until the surface potential reaches the predetermined potential.
Abstract:
An excavating vehicle according to the present invention comprises an excavating apparatus rotated by a hydraulic actuator, said excavating apparatus being stopped automatically and smoothly at predetermined positions with a simple operation.
Abstract:
There are provided a cartilage extract that can be effective even when taken in a small amount and has a clear mechanism of effective action and a method of producing the extract. Provided are an isolated proteoglycan which is derived from a water extract of cartilage of cartilaginous fish and whose main component has a molecular weight of 500 kDa or more; a composition containing the proteoglycan; a pharmaceutical composition containing the proteoglycan as an active ingredient; and a method of producing the proteoglycan, comprising the steps of pulverizing cartilaginous fish-derived cartilage into a pulverized product with an average particle diameter of 100 μm or less, adding water to the pulverized product and extracting water-soluble components from it, separating an aqueous phase that contains the extracted water-soluble components, and adding an alcohol to the aqueous phase to produce a precipitate.
Abstract:
A driving mechanism for use in an image forming apparatus has a rotary shaft, a driving joint, a drum gear, a cleaning roller gear, and a transfer roller gear. The rotary shaft extends through a photosensitive member along an axis of rotation of the photosensitive member. The rotary shaft is rotatably supported at the opposite axial end parts thereof by bearings, respectively. The rotary shaft is un-rotatably jointed to the photosensitive member relative thereto at a lateral side part of a rear end part of the rotary shaft corresponding to the rear side of the image forming apparatus. The driving joint is jointed to the rear end part of the rotary shaft protruding from the photosensitive member at the rear side of the image forming apparatus to input a rotating force of a drum motor to the photosensitive drum. The drum gear is provided at the rear side of the photosensitive member. The cleaning roller gear and the transfer roller gear are in mesh with the drum gear. The rotary shaft has a mass larger than the photosensitive member.