Image forming apparatus with cleaning unit
    13.
    发明授权
    Image forming apparatus with cleaning unit 有权
    具有清洁单元的成像设备

    公开(公告)号:US09354587B2

    公开(公告)日:2016-05-31

    申请号:US13911385

    申请日:2013-06-06

    IPC分类号: G03G15/16 G03G21/00 G03G15/01

    摘要: An image forming apparatus, including: a rotatable image bearing member; a developing unit configured to supply a developer onto the image bearing member; a transfer unit configured to transfer the developer on the image bearing member to a recording medium by a transfer voltage being applied to the transfer unit by a voltage applying unit; and a cleaning unit configured to remove the developer on the image bearing member, wherein when the apparatus stops an image forming operation halfway, the apparatus executes a recovery operation in which the image bearing member is rotated while the voltage applying unit applies a voltage to the transfer unit so that a part of the developer remaining on the image bearing member is once transferred from the image bearing member to the transfer unit, transferred again from the transfer unit to the image bearing member, and then removed by the cleaning unit.

    摘要翻译: 一种图像形成装置,包括:可旋转图像承载部件; 显影单元,构造成将显影剂供应到图像承载部件上; 传送单元,被配置为通过施加到转印单元的转印电压通过电压施加单元将图像承载部件上的显影剂转印到记录介质; 以及清洁单元,其构造成去除图像承载部件上的显影剂,其中当所述装置中途停止图像形成操作时,所述装置执行恢复操作,其中所述图像承载部件旋转,同时所述电压施加单元向所述图像承载部件施加电压 转印单元,使得保留在图像承载部件上的显影剂的一部分一次从图像承载部件转印到转印单元,再次从转印单元传送到图像承载部件,然后由清洁单元去除。

    Image forming apparatus with control of charging voltage of photosensitive member
    14.
    发明授权
    Image forming apparatus with control of charging voltage of photosensitive member 有权
    具有感光元件充电电压控制的图像形成装置

    公开(公告)号:US09104130B2

    公开(公告)日:2015-08-11

    申请号:US14085200

    申请日:2013-11-20

    IPC分类号: G03G15/02 G03G15/043

    CPC分类号: G03G15/0266

    摘要: An image forming apparatus including: photosensitive members; charging devices to which a common charging power source applies a charging voltage to charge the photosensitive members; an exposure device configured to expose the photosensitive members; developing devices to form developer images on the photosensitive members; a transfer device to transfer the developer images onto a transfer medium; and a control portion configured to set a lower limit value of the charging voltage for each photosensitive member, apply the charging voltage having a magnitude not less than any lower limit value from the charging power source to the charging devices, control the output of the laser power for each photosensitive member individually, and set, based on the image density of the developer image transferred onto the transfer medium earlier, the lower limit value for a photosensitive member on which a developer image to be transferred onto the transfer medium later is formed.

    摘要翻译: 一种图像形成装置,包括:感光构件; 充电装置,其中公共充电电源施加充电电压以对感光构件充电; 曝光装置,被配置为曝光感光构件; 显影装置以在感光构件上形成显影剂图像; 用于将显影剂图像转印到转印介质上的转印装置; 以及控制部,被配置为设定每个感光部件的充电电压的下限值,将来自充电电源的幅度不小于任何下限值的充电电压施加到充电装置,控制激光器的输出 并且基于更早转印到转印介质上的显影剂图像的图像浓度来设定其后转印到转印介质上的显影剂图像的感光部件的下限值。

    IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    15.
    发明申请
    IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS 有权
    图像形成装置

    公开(公告)号:US20150098719A1

    公开(公告)日:2015-04-09

    申请号:US14507515

    申请日:2014-10-06

    IPC分类号: G03G15/01 G03G15/16

    CPC分类号: G03G15/161 G03G15/5058

    摘要: A Zener diode contacts an inner periphery surface of an intermediate transfer belt, and an opposing roller which opposes a detecting member is electrically insulated, in a configuration where transfer is performed at multiple photosensitive drums while an electrical current is applied in a peripheral direction of the intermediate transfer belt.

    摘要翻译: 齐纳二极管接触中间转印带的内周表面,并且与检测部件相对的相对辊电绝缘,在以多个感光鼓进行转印的构造中,同时在沿周向方向施加电流 中间转印带

    Image forming apparatus
    16.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US12099315B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-24

    申请号:US18476841

    申请日:2023-09-28

    IPC分类号: G03G15/08 G03G15/00 G03G21/00

    摘要: An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive member, a charging member, an exposing device, a developing device, a transfer member, a brush, a voltage applying portion, and a control portion controlling a surface potential of the photosensitive member at the brush contacting position. When a value of subtracting a value of the surface potential of the photosensitive member in the brush contacting position from a value of the brush voltage is defined as a contacting position potential difference, the control portion controls the surface potential of the photosensitive member in the brush contacting position so that the contacting position potential difference is changed from a first potential difference to a second potential difference in a predetermined direction which is either one of an increasing direction or a decreasing direction, and then the contacting position potential difference is changed from the second potential difference to a third potential difference in the predetermined direction.

    Image forming apparatus
    17.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11994823B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-28

    申请号:US18149350

    申请日:2023-01-03

    IPC分类号: G03G21/00 G03G21/16

    摘要: An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearing member, a developing member to develop an electrostatic latent image at a developing portion, a transfer member to transfer a developer image to a recording member at a transfer portion; and a brush provided with a plurality of base materials contacting the image bearing member at downstream of the transfer portion and upstream of the developing portion in a rotational direction of the image bearing member. The developer remaining on the surface of the image bearing member is collected in the developing portion. An average distance between base materials of the brush with respect to a rotational axis direction of the image bearing member is larger than an average particle diameter of the developer, and is equal to or less than a length corresponding to a spatial frequency visually recognizable by a user when the image formed by the image forming apparatus is observed by the user.

    Image forming apparatus
    18.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11846899B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-12-19

    申请号:US17386368

    申请日:2021-07-27

    IPC分类号: G03G15/16 G03G21/00

    CPC分类号: G03G15/161 G03G21/0005

    摘要: An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearing member and a rotatable developing member to carry developer made up of toner particles and carrier particles adhered to surfaces of the toner particles. Where a pressing force pressing the developing member against the image bearing member is F1, a total number of the carrier particles interposed between the toner particles and the image bearing member is N1, and an adhesion Ft between a carrier particle and a toner particle, measured when the carrier particle is pressed against the toner particle with F1/N1 that is a pressing force per unit carrier particle, and an adhesion Fdr1 between the carrier particle and the image bearing member, measured when the carrier particle is pressed against the image bearing member with F1/N1, satisfy Ft≤Fdr1.

    Image forming apparatus
    19.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11782377B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-10-10

    申请号:US18092589

    申请日:2023-01-03

    IPC分类号: G03G21/00 G03G21/16

    摘要: An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearing member, a developing unit to develop an electrostatic latent image at a developing portion, a transfer unit to transfer a developer image to a recording member at a transfer portion; and a brush provided with a plurality of fibers contacting the image bearing member at downstream of the transfer portion and upstream of the developing portion in a rotational direction of the image bearing member. An average contacting pressure of the brush per one fiber to the image bearing member is smaller than a depositing force of the developer not transferred to the recording member to the image bearing member. As the brush in a state of not in contact with the image bearing member is viewed from a free end side of the fibers, an average number of the fibers included in a circumference of a diameter of 100 μm is more than one.