摘要:
A charging device includes a charging member for electrically charging a member to be charged which is adapted to form a nip with a member to be charged which has a surface layer having a volume resistivity of 1×109-1×1014 &OHgr;cm, said charging member having an elastic member and movable with a peripheral speed difference relative to the member to be charged; and electroconductive particles carried on said charging member to the nip, wherein a peripheral speed Vd (mm/sec) of said member to be charged, a peripheral speed Vc (mm/sec) of said charging member, a width N (mm) of the nip measured in a moving direction of said charging member, and a coverage ratio Rc of said electroconductive particles on said charging member, satisfy: N·Rc·|Vc−Vd|/Vd≧1.
摘要:
A charging device, suitable for use in an electrophotographic image forming apparatus, is formed of an object to be charged, and a roller-shaped charging member disposed in contact with the object via electroconductive particles and supplied with a voltage to charge the objects. The charging member has a surface layer including an elastic foam and is moved with a surface speed difference relative to the object. The charging member has surface cavities having an average diameter of 5 to 150 &mgr;m and occupying an area percentage of 50 to 90%. An image forming apparatus and a process cartridge therefor including the charging device are also provided.
摘要:
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.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member for bearing an electrostatic image; a developing device for developing the electrostatic image on the image bearing member with toner into a toner image; a transfer device for transferring the toner image onto a transfer material; a charging and cleaning device for removing residual toner after image transfer from the image bearing member and for charging the image bearing member; wherein the charging and cleaning device includes a rotatable member which has an electroconductive foam for retaining electroconductive particles and which is rotatable while rubbing the image bearing member.
摘要:
A charging member supporting magnetic particles for charging a member to be charged, including: an electroconductive member to which a voltage is applicable; and a member electrically insulated from the electroconductive member at an end portion, in a longitudinal direction of the charging member, of the magnetic particles, wherein deposition of magnetic particles to the member to be charged from the charging member is effectively prevented.
摘要:
Improvement has been made in an image forming method comprising charging electrically an image holding member, forming a latent electrostatic image on the image holding member, developing the latent image with a toner, transferring the toner image onto a toner image receiving medium, and recovering untransferred toner. In this method, a magnetic brush formed from magnetic particles electrifies the image holding member by contact with the image holding member surface, recovers temporarily at least a part of the toner remaining on the image holding member after the image transfer, and transfers the recovered toner further again onto the image holding member, wherein the toner has a weight-average particle diameter of not larger than 1/3 of average particle diameter of the magnetic particles and the magnetic particles contain particles of diameter of not larger than 1/3 of the average particle diameter of the magnetic particles at a content ranging from 0 to 50% by volume. Thereby, contamination of the magnetic particles by the toner and interception of the electric conduction path in the magnetic brush are prevented, and deterioration of the toner is prevented without excessive shearing of the recovered toner with magnetic particles.
摘要:
A charging member for charging a member to be charged, includes a magnet member and a surface electroconductive layer for supporting electroconductive magnetic particles, the layer being supported by the magnet member and rotating together with the magnet member in a region supporting the magnetic particles.
摘要:
A charging apparatus includes a charger for being supplied with an AC voltage and for electrically charging a member to be charged; a current measurer for measuring a current flowing between the charger and the member to be charged when the AC voltage is supplied to the charger; and a particular current extractor for extracting from the current a particular current having a particular frequency.
摘要:
A charging member for charging a member to be charged, includes an elastic foam member provided at a surface of the charging member. The elastic foam member includes a plurality of cell portions with wall portion defining the cell portions. The gaps connecting the cell portions have areas which are not less than 5% and not more than 50%, for respective cells.
摘要:
A charging apparatus includes a charging member for charging a member to be charged while forming a nip with the member to be charged, and electroconductive particles disposed in the nip. The charging member is supplied with a voltage of a certain polarity, a surface of the member to be charged is triboelectrically charged by a surface of the charging member so as to have a polarity opposite from that of the voltage, and the electroconductive particles are triboelectrically charged in the nip so as to have a polarity opposite from that of the voltage.