摘要:
An image forming apparatus and a process cartridge have high-durability and stably form high quality images under long-term use without reducing image density even when concentration of discharge products at the surface of an electrophotographic photoconductor becomes uneven in a discharge region of a charging unit. The apparatus employs an image forming method and has a corona discharge type charging unit discharging in a non-contact manner, the photoconductor placed to face the charging unit and the outermost surface layer thereof contains a filler and an amine compound with a specific structure, and an airflow adjusting device which carries air taken from the outside of the apparatus to the vicinity of the charging unit or the photoconductor so that ozone concentration and unevenness thereof are maintained at an average of 30 ppm or less and 15 ppm or less respectively at the surface of the photoconductor in the discharge region.
摘要:
The present invention provides an image forming apparatus that has high-durability and can prevent image degradation that could be caused by an increase in residual potential on a photoconductor, occurrence of image blur and incidental images and can stably form a high-quality image even when repetitively used for long hours, and includes at least an electrophotographic photoconductor, a non-contact type corona discharge charging unit, an exposing unit, a developing unit, a transfer unit and a charge eliminating unit configured to eliminate a residual charge on the photoconductor by irradiating the electrophotographic photoconductor with light, wherein the outermost surface layer of the electrophotographic photoconductor contains at least a filler and an is amine compound having a specific structure, and the exposure dose of the charge eliminating unit is controlled at at least two stages during a time from the start of image forming operation to the end of the image forming operation.
摘要:
An electrophotographic photoreceptor, including an electroconductive substrate; and a photosensitive layer, located overlying the electroconductive substrate, wherein an outermost layer of the electrophotographic photoreceptor includes an amine compound and a charge transport material, and wherein the amine compound includes an amine site having an electrostatic potential with a dimensionless unit not greater than −0.27.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus and a process cartridge have high-durability and stably form high quality images under long-term use without reducing image density even when concentration of discharge products at the surface of an electrophotographic photoconductor becomes uneven in a discharge region of a charging unit. The apparatus employs an image forming method and has a corona discharge type charging unit discharging in a non-contact manner, the photoconductor placed to face the charging unit and the outermost surface layer thereof contains a filler and an amine compound with a specific structure, and an airflow adjusting device which carries air taken from the outside of the apparatus to the vicinity of the charging unit or the photoconductor so that ozone concentration and unevenness thereof are maintained at an average of 30 ppm or less and 15 ppm or less respectively at the surface of the photoconductor in the discharge region.
摘要:
The present invention provides an image forming apparatus which has high durability and allows for preventing occurrence of image blur and suppressing image degradation caused by a reduction in image density near a charging unit used under a high-humidity condition and stably forming high-quality images even when repetitively used for a long hours. To this end, the image forming apparatus has at least an electrophotographic photoconductor, a corona discharge type charging unit in a non-contact manner, an exposing unit, a developing unit, a transfer unit, a cleaning unit and a lubricant providing unit, wherein the outermost surface layer of the electrophotographic photoconductor contains at least a filler and an amine compound having a specific structure, the lubricant providing unit has a lubricant supplying unit configured to supply a lubricant onto the electrophotographic photoconductor and a lubricant applying unit configured to apply the supplied lubricant over the electrophotographic photoconductor surface.
摘要:
An electrophotographic photoreceptor, including an electroconductive substrate; and a photosensitive layer, located overlying the electroconductive substrate, wherein an outermost layer of the electrophotographic photoreceptor includes an amine compound and a charge transport material, and wherein the amine compound includes an amine site having an electrostatic potential with a dimensionless unit not greater than −0.27.
摘要:
A cleaning blade cleaning the surface of an object includes a rigid holder; and a strip-shaped elastic body fixed on the holder, having a tip ridgeline to contact the surface of the object. The elastic body has a Martens hardness M1 in the range of from 0.9 to 10.0 N/mm2 at a position 300 μm from the ridgeline on an undersurface of the elastic body including the ridgeline, a Martens hardness M2 at a position 1,000 μm therefrom and a Martens hardness M3 at a position 2,000 μm therefrom, and M1, M2 and M3 satisfy the following relationship: M1>M2>M3.
摘要翻译:清洁物体表面的清洁刀片包括刚性保持器; 以及固定在保持器上的带状弹性体,具有与物体的表面接触的尖端棱线。 弹性体的马氏体硬度M1在距离包括棱线的弹性体的下表面的棱线300μm的位置处为0.9至10.0N / mm 2的范围内的马氏体硬度M1,距离为1,000μm的马氏体硬度M2和 马氏硬度M3位于距离为2,000μm的位置,M1,M2和M3满足以下关系:M1> M2> M3。
摘要:
A cleaning blade cleaning the surface of an object includes a rigid holder; and a strip-shaped elastic body fixed on the holder, including a tip ridgeline to contact the surface of the object. The cleaning blade includes a part having a Martens hardness of from 0.9 to 5.0 N/mm2 at a depth of 20 μm from an undersurface of the blade including the ridgeline, 0.3 to 0.8 N/mm2 at a depth of 40 μm therefrom, and the Martens hardness at a depth of 20 μm therefrom larger than that at a depth of 40 μm therefrom by 0.6 N/mm2.
摘要翻译:清洁物体表面的清洁刀片包括刚性保持器; 以及固定在所述保持器上的带状弹性体,其包括与所述物体的表面接触的尖端棱线。 清洁刮板包括从包括棱线的叶片的下表面开始的深度为20μm至20μm的马氏体硬度为0.9至5.0N / mm 2的部分,其深度为40μm时为0.3至0.8N / mm 2, 其深度为20μm的马氏体硬度比其深度为40μm的马氏硬度大0.6N / mm 2。
摘要:
An image forming apparatus, including: an image bearing member; a charging unit; an exposure unit; a developing unit; a transfer unit; a fixing unit; and a cleaning unit including a cleaning blade, wherein the charging unit includes a charging roller that is brought into contact with the image bearing member for charging, the charging roller abutting the image bearing member at a pressing force of 10 mN/cm to 1,000 mN/cm, wherein the cleaning blade includes an elastic member that abuts the surface of the image bearing member to remove a residue attached to the surface of the image bearing member, and wherein an abutment part of the elastic member, which abuts the surface of the image bearing member, includes a cured product of an ultraviolet curable composition containing a (meth)acrylate compound having an alicyclic structure having 6 or more carbon atoms in a molecule.
摘要:
Provided is a cleaning blade including an elastic member configured to abut on a surface of a cleaning target member and remove residual material deposited thereon, wherein elastic member satisfies requirements a to c below, a. an abutment part of the elastic member to abut on the surface of the cleaning target member has a reformed layer, b. Martens hardness at a surface of the reformed layer is from 1.5 to 15 N/mm2, and c. a relationship H/L between maximum Martens hardness H among Martens hardnesses H in a region inward from the abutment part thicknesswise and distance L from the surface of the reformed layer is from 0.010 to 0.2 (N/mm2·1/μm), where distance L represents minimum distance among distances to the surface of the reformed layer, from positions at which a measured Martens hardness and a measured elastic power are equal to those of the elastic member.