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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120128384 | MOUNTING METHOD OF CLEANING BLADE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING CLEANING BLADE A cleaning blade mounting method includes the steps of: moving a toner image carrier on which a toner layer is formed so that the toner layer reaches a cleaning position by a cleaning device; after bringing a tip of a cleaning blade into contact with the toner layer, br... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120045229 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS In an image forming apparatus, when no image is being formed, an image bearing member is rotated at least one rotation, in a state in which a transfer bias is controlled such that a potential on a surface of the image bearing member on the upstream side in the rotationa... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120033986 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member; toner image forming portion for forming a toner image on the image bearing member; a transfer member for transferring the toner image from the image bearing member onto a transfer material; a cleaning blade fo... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120020692 | LONG LIFE CLEANING SYSTEM WITH REDUCED STRESS FOR START OF CLEANING BLADE OPERATION According to aspects of the embodiments, there is provided an apparatus and method to manage the contact of a cleaning blade and a moving surface to increase the useful life of the blade. For example, a cleaning apparatus for a photoreceptor surface comprises a cleaning... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120020693 | CLEANING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS A cleaning device for cleaning a belt member, includes a cleaning blade; a removing member coming in contact with the surface of the belt member so as to remove foreign matter adhering on the surface of the belt member; and a contact pressure changing section to change ... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120008974 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearing member; a cleaning blade for removing toner in contact with the image bearing member; a load adjusting device for adjusting a contact load between the cleaning blade and the image bearing member; a developing... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120008967 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR STOPPING DRIVING IMAGE CARRIER An image forming apparatus comprising: an image carrier to carry a toner image; a driving unit to drive the image carrier to rotate; a transfer unit to transfer the toner image at a transfer position; a cleaner at a cleaning position to remove toner remaining on the ima... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120008973 | CLEANING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME A cleaning device disposed downstream from a transfer position in a direction of rotation of the image carrier to remove toner from the image carrier. The cleaning device includes a normally-charged toner cleaning member to electrostatically remove normally-charged tone... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110299865 | PROCESS CONTROL WITH LONGITUDINAL MEMBER TONER REMOVAL A dry electrophotographic printer is operated to remove toner from a longitudinal member. A process-control time interval, and a cleaning time interval that is a positive multiple thereof, are selected. Prints are produced until the process-control time interval elapses... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110299864 | REMOVING TONER FROM LONGITUDINAL MEMBER IN PRINTER Apparatus for removing toner after a selected time interval from a longitudinal member in a dry electrophotographic printer for printing a visible image on a receiver. An end block is disposed at one end of a rotatable development member, and a longitudinal member is di... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110286752 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CLEANING A PHOTORECEPTOR IN A PRINTING APPARATUS An apparatus and method that cleans a photoreceptor in a printing apparatus is disclosed. The method can include setting a voltage bias of an electrostatic cleaning brush in a printing apparatus to a first voltage bias. The method can include generating an image on medi... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110286755 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CLEANING IMAGE CARRYING BODY The image forming apparatus comprises: a first driving section causing an image carrying body carrying a developer image to perform regular rotation or reverse rotation; a fixing section fixing the developer image and conveying a sheet; a second driving section rotating... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110274452 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND PHOTOCONDUCTIVE MEMBER CLEANING METHOD IN THE IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a developing device, a cleaning executing section, and a potential adjusting section. An electrostatic latent image is formed on the image bearing member. The developing device sto... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110268466 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CLEANING METHOD An image forming apparatus includes: an image holder on which a toner image is formed; a lubricant applying section which applies a lubricant to the image holder; a torque calculation section which calculates torque of a drive motor which drives the image holder; a clea... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110262170 | CLEANING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS A cleaning apparatus includes a first cleaning roller, and a second cleaning roller. The first cleaning roller is contrived to contact to a circumferential surface against a moving member to be cleaned and to apply a bias to the member to be cleaned while rotating such ... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110255889 | Image Forming Apparatus An image forming apparatus includes: photosensitive members; an endless belt facing the photosensitive members; developing rollers respectively supplying, to the photosensitive members, developer of different colors which is charged to a first polarity; cleaning rollers... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110229818 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD An image forming apparatus includes a developing device that uses a developer carrier to advance to an image carrier a developer including a toner and a carrier and supplies the toner to the image carrier by applying a developing bias between the developer carrier and t... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110182596 | Image forming apparatus If an input of a continuous image forming job is received, a time for interrupting the continuous image forming job is decided based on an image area ratio of a toner image that is formed on a latent image carrier through the continuous image forming job and a predeterm... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110150519 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image forming apparatus includes a control unit that performs two types of stop operations in which an image bearing member is rotated or is not rotated after forming an image. The control unit selects the stop operation according to operation time of the image beari... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110129247 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING CLEANING STATION OPERATION IN A PRINTING APPARATUS An apparatus (100) and method (200) that adjusts cleaning station operation in a printing apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus can include a charge receptor (110) movable in a process direction P, where the charge receptor can have a main surface (... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110103817 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CLEANING A LATENT IMAGE CARRIER An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a latent image carrier, a conveyer system including nipping rollers to convey a sheet to vicinity of the latent image carrier, a switching system to switch operation modes between an image form... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110103818 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH MECHANISM FOR CLEANING IMAGE CARRIER A control unit temporarily stops an image carrier when transfer of an image formed using a developer to a recording medium ends. Thereafter, the control unit controls a drive source to intermittently drive the image carrier N times. A measuring unit measures an amount o... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110091234 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE CONTROL METHOD A technique capable of preventing deterioration of image quality resulting from a band-shaped toner image created on a photosensitive surface in order to prevent so-called carrier attraction is provided. An image forming method involving an abutting and separation step ... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110081159 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier member, an intermediate transfer member, a transfer unit, a cleaning unit, and a driving controller. The image carrier member carries a toner image. The toner image carried on the image carrier member is first-transfe... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110026946 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE An image forming device includes a controller that is configured to, during a warming-up operation performed before an image forming operation, control a cleaner performing cleaning to remove development agent from a conveying belt and a remaining amount detector perfor... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110013923 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS WITH AN INTERMEDIATE TRANSFER MEMBER AND A PLURALITY OF CLEANING MEMBERS An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming device; an intermediate transfer member; a secondary transferring device; a first cleaning member; a second cleaning member; a contacting/separating device; a release-agent applying device; and a controlling unit.... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20100329721 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image forming apparatus has an image carrier for carrying toner. A charger charges the surface of the image carrier and an exposure part then forms an electrostatic latent image thereon. A developer uses toner to develop the electrostatic latent image and a transfer ... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100272460 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRINT APPARATUS ROTATIONAL ASSEMBLY CLEANING BLADE ADJUSTMENT An apparatus (100) and method (200) for print apparatus rotational assembly cleaning blade adjustment is disclosed. The apparatus can include a printer rotational transport assembly (110) configured to transport a substance in a printer. The apparat... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100266308 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD An image forming apparatus configured to form an image on a transfer medium with a developer includes: an image bearing member on which an electrostatic latent image is formed, the developer is supplied to develop the electrostatic latent image, and an image to be trans... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100260511 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS The present invention is directed to clean a collecting member without making toner on the collecting member enter a developing device and to reduce deterioration in throughput accompanying the operation of cleaning the collecting member with a simple configuration. A c... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100239302 | Cleaning unit, process cartridge, and electrophotographic image forming apparatus A cleaning unit that can remove particles of residual toner remaining on an image carrier after transfer and be incorporated in a process cartridge removably installable to an image forming apparatus, includes a brush roller disposed in contact with the image carrier to... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100232824 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image forming apparatus comprises: a rotatable image carrier operable to carry a toner image on a surface thereof; a transfer part operable to electrostatically transfer the toner image carried on the surface of the image carrier, onto a transfer material; a cleaning... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100232823 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CARTRIDGE, AND CLEANING DEVICE An image forming apparatus includes: an image bearing body on which surface an image is formed and borne; an image forming section that forms the image; a transfer device that transfers the formed image to a transferring body; a cleaning member that comes into contact w... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100226666 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image forming apparatus of the present invention includes: an image carrier on whose surface is formed a latent image; a developing unit that forms a developer image with a developer including toner, carrier and additive; a transfer unit that transfers the developer ... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100196026 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member; toner image forming means for forming a toner image on the image bearing member; a transfer member for transferring the toner image from the image bearing member onto a recording material; an executing portion... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100196040 | Image forming device An image forming device having an detachable image forming unit that has an image carrier and an opening that exposes a part of the surface of the image carrier includes a determination unit that determines a cleaning time for the image carrier; and a rotation control u... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100150598 | TONER AND ADDITIVE REMOVAL SYSTEM FOR COPIER OR PRINTER This is an electrophotographic marking system that effectively cleans residual toner and toner additives from the surface of a photoreceptor of a marking system, by improved toner and toner agent removal expedients . This cleaning process reduces ghosting problems that ... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100124430 | Image Forming Apparatus An Image Forming Apparatus has a controller for controlling a second bias, which is applied to a cleaning member, based on a value of electric current measured by a current sensor. The controller controls the second bias on based on the value of the current measured whe... | 05/20/2010 |
| 20100119253 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CLEANING IMAGE CARRIER OF THE IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS In an image forming apparatus 1, disposed are: a photoreceptor drum 2; a charging roller which rotates following the photoreceptor drum 2; and a cleaning member 21 which is rotatable with being in contact with surfaces of the photoreceptor dr... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100111556 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive member; a charging member contactable to said photosensitive member to electrically charge said photosensitive member; applying means applying a charging bias voltage to said charging member; detecting means detecting... | 05/06/2010 |
