摘要:
An image forming apparatus includes a charging unit that charges an image bearing member, a developing unit that forms a toner image on an latent image formed on the image bearing member, a transfer unit that transfers the toner image onto a transfer material, a charge neutralizer that neutralizes a charge of the image bearing member downstream of a transfer portion and upstream of a charging portion in a rotating direction of the image bearing member, a conductive collecting unit that collects a material adhering on the image bearing member downstream of the transfer portion and upstream of the charging portion, wherein the developing unit collects residual toner on the image bearing member, an voltage application unit sets a potential difference between the voltage applied to the collecting unit and the surface electric potential of the image bearing member not more than a discharge threshold.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a charging member, a development member, a transfer member, a charging voltage application unit, a development voltage application unit, and a control unit. The development member collects toner that remains on a surface of the image bearing member after a toner image is transferred from the image bearing member surface to transfer material. The control unit controls application of a development voltage to apply, to the development member in a cleaning operation, a development voltage having a polarity that is opposite to a normal polarity, and controls application of a charging voltage to apply, to the charging member, a charging voltage having the normal polarity such that a potential difference formed at a charging portion between the applied charging voltage and a surface potential formed at the image bearing member surface is lower than or equal to a discharge start voltage.
摘要:
In a case where a collection mode in which a exposure unit forms a first potential on a photosensitive member and a developing unit collects discharging toner discharged from the developing unit to a position where the first potential is formed is executed, a potential forming unit forms, on an intermediate transfer member, a potential same as a normal charging polarity of toner and an absolute value greater than an absolute value of the first potential, and a charging power supply applies, to a charging member, a voltage having a polarity same as the normal charging polarity and an absolute value greater than an absolute value of the first potential.
摘要:
An intermediate transfer belt includes a base layer that has ionic conductivity and is a thickest layer out of multiple layers making up the intermediate transfer belt with respect to the thickness direction of the intermediate transfer belt, and an inner layer having electronic conductivity and a lower electrical resistance than the base layer.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus includes a resistor in a sheet shape configured to ground a sensor member electrically; a first contact member configured to form a current path between the resistor and the sensor member; and a second contact member configured to form a current path between the resistor and an electrical ground portion. A first contact portion and a second contact portion are arranged so as not to overlap in a thickness direction of the resistor.
摘要:
In an image forming apparatus, a current supply member comes into contact with a belt at a position different from a position of the transfer section in a rotational direction of the belt, and a control unit performs constant current control on the current flowing through the current supply member by setting a predetermined value to a target current value, and can change a first state in which a part of the current supplied to the current supply member flows to a ground side via a constant voltage element, and a second state in which the current supplied to the current supply member does not flow to the ground side via the constant voltage element, by maintaining the constant current control by the predetermined value.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image forming stations and a control portion configured to control an image forming operation. Each of the image forming stations includes an image bearing member configured to form a toner image on a surface thereof and a charging device configured to charge the image bearing member. The toner images formed on the image bearing members of the image forming stations are sequentially transferred to a transfer incurring member to be superimposed. The control portion sets a voltage applied to the charging device in forming an image in an image forming station which performs the transfer later based on image density information of the toner image transferred to the transfer incurring member by an image forming station which performs the transfer earlier in a sequence of the image forming operations.
摘要:
Wheels configured to be supported by a metallic roller on an outside of end portions of a contact area and inside of end portions of the transfer belt in terms of a width direction are provided, and the wheels are formed of a non-conductive resin.
摘要:
A rotatable fixing member includes an elastic layer, a primer layer provided on the elastic layer, and a parting layer provided on the primer layer. The primer layer contains a crystalline fluorocarbon polymer having a functional group and has a thickness of 850 nm or less. The parting layer is a coating layer of a crystalline fluorocarbon polymer.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus, which executes, after an image forming operation is stopped, a cleaning operation in which toner that remains on an intermediate transfer belt is transferred to a photosensitive drum and is removed by a cleaning blade while the image forming apparatus causes the intermediate transfer belt to move for circulation, causes a charging roller or a laser scanner to change the surface potential of the photosensitive drum such that the toner to be transferred from the intermediate transfer belt to the photosensitive drum is part of the toner that is to remain on the intermediate transfer belt, when the cleaning operation is executed.