摘要:
A heat exchanger support structure has a heat exchanger, a heat exchanger support supporting the heat exchanger, and motor fan units. The heat exchanger support is integrally formed with motor fan shroud portions allowing the air flow caused by motor fans. Electric motors driving the fans are respectively surrounded by a cylindrical shroud member, which has stays received in holding portions formed on the shroud portion with an elastic member interposed between the stay and the holding portion. This results in that the shroud member, the motor fan unit, and the elastic member function as a dynamic damper.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus that forms a toner image. First and second image data is generated independently to produce a light and/or dark colored latent image. Thereafter, the latent image formed on an image forming body through charging and image-wise exposure is developed by using light and/or dark colored toner of the same color. Furthermore, there is a difference of an average amount of electrostatic charges between the dark colored toner and the light colored toner within 25%.
摘要:
A fixing apparatus that fixes, on a transfer material, toner images on the transfer material through heating and pressing, wherein, a ray-radiating member that radiates rays is provided, and a roll-shaped rotary member for applying heat is formed by providing a cylindrical ray-transmitting base member which can transmit the rays and a cylindrical ray-transmitting elastic layer or a ray-transmitting heat insulating layer which can transmit the rays, and by providing, on the outer side of the ray-transmitting elastic layer or the ray-transmitting heat insulating layer, a ray absorbing layer that absorbs the rays stated above. The inequality of T1
摘要:
In an image forming apparatus, a document image is read by an image scanner and image data are applied with image processing and stored in a memory. An image correction device corrects the image data with a different correcting condition depending on whether the image data are used for a toner image on the obverse side of the sheet or for a toner image on the reverse side of the sheet. A fixing device fixes the toner images on the obverse side and the reverse side of the sheet simultaneously.
摘要:
A two-sided color image forming apparatus includes: a first and second color image forming units each having an image carrier, a plurality of imagewise exposure devices and a plurality of color developing units containing respective colored toners different from each other, provided on a periphery of the image carrier; a belt-shaped intermediate transfer body passing through the first and second color image forming units for receiving a toner image formed by the second color image forming unit, wherein the first and second color image forming units are disposed downstream and upstream of a moving direction of the belt-shaped intermediate transfer body, respectively, and; a sheet pass for conveying a recording sheet onto the belt-shaped intermediate transfer body passing through between the first and second image forming units. The two-sided color image forming apparatus further includes: a second transfer device for transferring the toner image formed by the second color image forming unit onto one side of the recording sheet through the belt-shaped intermediate transfer body; and a first transfer device for transferring directly a toner image formed by the first color image forming unit onto the other side of the recording sheet, wherein each of color image formation orders for plural color toners formed respectively by the first and second color image forming units is completely reversed to each other.
摘要:
In a color image forming apparatus provided with a photoreceptor having a rotatable peripheral surface; plural sets of a charging device, an imagewise exposure device, and a developing device, each set of the plural sets is provided separately from other sets around the peripheral surface of the photoreceptor so that plural color component images are formed one after another by the plural sets and are superimposed so as to form a color image on the peripheral surface during a single rotation of the peripheral surface. The developing device has a casing and the imagewise exposure device and the developing device of each set are arranged such that a portion on the peripheral surface locating at an imagewise exposing position moves into the casing of the developing device before the electric potential V1 of the portion is lowered to the half of V1 (V1/2). A pre-transfer exposing device/transfer device and pre-cleaning exposing device/cleaning device all operate such that the potential on the photoreceptor moves into the casings of the transfer device or cleaning device before the potential is lowered to half its value.
摘要:
In an image forming apparatus provided with a first image carrying member; a belt-shaped second image carrying member onto which a toner image is transferred from the first image carrying member; a pair of rotatable fixing members forming a nip region for fixing the toner images transferred on the both sides of the sheet; a conveying device for guiding the sheet separated from an end of the belt-shaped second image carrying member to the pair of rotatable fixing members, when the sheet is nipped and conveyed through the nip region of the pair of rotatable fixing members, the belt-shaped second image carrying member and the pair of rotatable fixing members are arranged such that the sheet is conveyed so as to form a loop protruding from a line connecting the entrance of the nip region and the end of the belt-shaped second image carrying member.
摘要:
The present invention relates to an image forming apparatus which forms images on both surfaces of a sheet-shaped medium using the electrophotographic method. There is described a double-sided image forming apparatus, which includes a first and a second image bearing elements to bear toner images, a first and a second transfer units for transferring the toner images to the sheet-shaped medium from the first and the second image bearing elements, a fixing unit for fixing the toner images transferred to the sheet-shaped medium, a discharger to discharge electric charges residing on the sheet-shaped medium, a detector to detect thickness and/or stiffness data of the sheet-shaped medium, and a controller to control a first image forming mode which enables to form images on both surfaces of the sheet-shaped medium, and to control a second image forming mode which enables to form an image on only a single surface of the sheet-shaped medium.
摘要:
An apparatus for forming a toner image on a sheet, comprises first and second process units each comprising a photoreceptor, a charging device, an imagewise exposing device, and a developing device. The first process unit forms a first toner image on its photoreceptor and the second process unit forms a second toner image on its photoreceptor. A rotatable intermediate transfer member has a toner image receiving surface, and the first and second process units are located in close proximity to the toner image receiving surface of the rotatable intermediate transfer member. A second transfer device transfers the second toner image from the second process unit to the toner image receiving surface. A sheet feeder feeds the sheet to the toner image receiving surface so that the second side of the sheet is provided with the second toner image; and a first transfer device transfers the first toner image from the first process unit to the first side of the sheet on the toner image receiving surface.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus has an image forming body which is rotatable in a subsidiary scanning direction. A plurality of imagewise exposure devices for imagewise exposing the image forming body are arranged to face the image forming body and to be aligned in a straight line in a primary scanning direction perpendicular to the subsidiary scanning direction of the image forming body. A common supporting member is provided for supporting the plurality of exposure devices, and bearing members are provided on first and second ends of the common supporting member. The plurality of exposure devices are: (i) radially arranged on the common supporting member with respect to a rotation axis of the image forming body, and (ii) fixed on the supporting member with respect to the bearing members, and the image forming body is rotatable against the common supporting member through the bearing members.