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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8050614 | Hard image forming apparatus and method having contamination removal Hard image forming apparatuses and methods are described. According to one arrangement, a hard image forming apparatus includes an imaging member comprising a surface, a development system configured to provide a marking agent to the surface of the imaging member to... | 11/01/2011 |
| 7437115 | Image forming device An image forming device 30 is constituted capable of executing a refresh mode, including: a toner discharge process that transports toner on a developing sleeve 4a inside a developing unit 4 to a photoreceptor drum 1 side when star... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7349643 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method having a cleaner and a paper detecting unit An image forming apparatus that forms an image using a photoconductor body includes a switching unit which effects switching between a state in which a cleaner is operated for the photoconductor body, and a state in which the cleaner is not operated for the photocon... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7314129 | Image forming apparatus The image forming apparatus includes two tension rollers; a conveyor belt movably supported at the two tension rollers; a plurality of transfer parts that are arranged on the back surface side of the conveyor belt and between the two tension rollers, that contact on... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7283767 | Image forming apparatus and polishing method for image carrier An image forming apparatus comprises: an image carrier driven into rotation; a charger for electrically charging a surface of the image carrier; a latent image forming unit for forming an electrostatic latent image on the charged image carrier surface; a developing ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7272354 | Cleaning unit and image forming apparatus having multiple cleaning blades A cleaning unit includes a first blade and a second blade. The first blade is in contact with an image carrier or a paper carrier and removes adhered substances remained on surface of these. The second blade has an abrasive layer that is formed by including abrasive... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7257362 | Photoreceptor abrader for LCM A cleaning system for cleaning an imaging surface moving in a process direction, including: an abrading brush for uniformly abrading the imaging surface to remove laterally conductive deposits that lead to lateral charge migration therefrom, the abrading brush inclu... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7228099 | Cleaning device for cleaning a surface of an image support body A cleaning device, a process cartridge, an image forming apparatus and toner are disclosed to maintain improved cleaning performance for a long time. The cleaning device includes a cleaning blade, an antifriction agent coating part and a toner removing part. The cle... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7224929 | AC biased conductive brush for eliminating VOC induced LCM A cleaning system including: a cleaning device for cleaning laterally conductive deposits from the imaging surface; an AC bias member, adjacent to the imaging surface and positioned downstream from the cleaning device; and a power supply for biasing the AC bias memb... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7206523 | Color image forming apparatus and method using detachable process units A cleanerless cartridge in which a photoconductor body and a charger are integrated, and a cleaner-equipped cartridge in which a photoconductor body, a charger and a cleaner are integrated are prepared. An image forming apparatus body is configured such that the car... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7190919 | Intermediate transfer device and image forming device An intermediate transfer device has: an intermediate transfer belt supported by a plurality of belt supporting mechanisms so as to be able to circulate, and having elasticity at least in a direction of circulating; a first bias applying mechanism applying a first bi... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7110149 | Carriage module for scanner A carriage module for scanner comprises a case, an image sensor, a mirror set and a lens set. The image sensor, the mirror set and the lens set are arranged in the case and used to guide a reflected light from a document to be scanned as well as convert the reflecte... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7110696 | Cleaning unit, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus A cleaning unit includes a first blade and a second blade. The first blade is in contact with an image carrier or a paper carrier and removes adhered substances remained on surface of these. The second blade has an abrasive layer that is formed by including abrasive... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7060350 | COMPOSITE MAGNETIC MATERIAL AND MAGNETIC MOLDING MATERIAL, MAGNETIC POWDER COMPRESSION MOLDING MATERIAL, AND MAGNETIC PAINT USING THE COMPOSITE MAGNETIC MATERIAL, COMPOSITE DIELECTRIC MATERIAL AND MOLDING MATERIAL, POWDER COMPRESSION MOLDING MATERIAL, PAINT, PREPREG, AND SUBSTRATE USING THE COMPOSITE DIELECTRIC MATERIAL, AND ELECTRONIC PART A composite magnetic material including a resin and generally spherical magnetic metal particles of at least one type dispersed in the resin and consisting essentially of single crystal grains, the metal particles having a mean particle size of 0.1 to 10 μm and eac... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7043188 | Cleaning device for cleaning a moving surface An apparatus for cleaning a moving surface having toner particles thereon, including: a housing defining an open ended chamber; means, disposed in the chamber of the housing with a portion thereof extending outwardly from the open end of the chamber of the housing i... | 05/09/2006 |
| 6968149 | Image forming apparatus and method of cleaning the same There is provided a simply structured, cleanerless image forming apparatus capable of suppressing occurrence of filming without significant remodeling. An image forming apparatus 100 according to the present invention comprises a plurality of image for... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6961534 | Rotating flicker bar for cleaning a rotating cleaner roll and for transmitting power to the cleaner roll A rotating flicker bar assembly for cleaning fibers of a rotating brush where the flicker bar is rotatably mounted in an interfering relationship with the fibers of the rotating brush and wherein the rotating flicker bar and brush are rotationally coupled in order t... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6947676 | Image forming apparatus and controlling method therefor determining state use of cartridge An image forming apparatus is used together with a process cartridge which is detachably attachable to the image forming apparatus and which includes an electrophotographic, photosensitive body, a developing device provided with at least a developer containing porti... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6925282 | Retractable agglomeration removable blade with cleaning mechanism and process for agglomeration removal A cleaning system and process for removing residual toner from an imaging surface, including a primary cleaner system for removing the predominant amount of residual toner and debris and a retractable secondary agglomeration cleaning blade mounted downstream from th... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6785485 | Image forming device with filming cleaning function An image forming device develops a static-electric latent image into a visible image using non-magnetic, single component developer. The image forming device includes a photosensitive drum and a developing roller that are disposed in confrontation with each other. T... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6706459 | Electrophotographic drum-shaped photoconductor and image forming method and apparatus using the same An electrophotographic drum-shaped photoconductor has an electroconductive support and a photoconductive layer formed thereon, with a lubricating material being applied to the surface thereof in the shape of a plurality of bands spaced therebetween, constituting ban... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6562529 | Electrophotographic drum-shaped photoconductor and image forming method and apparatus using the same An electrophotographic drum-shaped photoconductor has an electroconductive support and a photoconductive layer formed thereon, with a lubricating material being applied to the surface thereof in the shape of a plurality of bands spaced therebetween, const... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6555192 | Pressure-sensitive cleaning sheet, image-forming material having cleaning part, and method of cleaning image-forming apparatus A pressure-sensitive cleaning sheet is disclosed which comprises a substrate, a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer formed on one or both sides of the substrate, and a porous screen disposed on the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer. The cleaning sheet is su... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6459865 | Liquid-developing electro-photographic printer photosensitive body cleaning method A transfer roller cleaning mechanism 12 is brought into contact with a transfer roller 11 so as to remove a harmful substance contained in a developer remaining on the transfer roller 11 after a transfer step. Upon completion of printing of a predetermine... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6311037 | Image-bearing member cleaning method and electrophotographic image forming apparatus An electrophotographic image forming apparatus includes an image-bearing member for bearing a toner image thereon, a transfer device for transferring the toner image from the image-bearing member to a recording medium at a transfer position, a drive mecha... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6253044 | Image forming apparatus having blade cleaning device applied thereto, and process cartridge An electrophotographic image forming apparatus includes an electrophotographic photosensitive body for forming electrostatic latent images thereon; a charging device structured with an electrode member in contact with the photosensitive body for forming t... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6192214 | Roller cleaning apparatus of liquid electrophotographic printer A roller cleaning apparatus of a liquid electrophotographic printer cleans a circumferential surface of a roller where a film is formed due to contact with a photoreceptor medium. The apparatus includes an abrasion member installed to be in contact with t... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6063532 | Photoreceptor A photoreceptor for forming an electrophotography is disclosed. The photoreceptor comprises a photosensitive layer in an area excluding both edges in the axial direction on a cylindrical aluminum support and silicon oil on the surface of both edges which ... | 05/16/2000 |
| 5878316 | Cleaning mechanism for a reproduction apparatus A cleaning mechanism for removing residual marking particles and other debris from a dielectric member of a reproduction apparatus and polish the dielectric member and remove fine scratches therefrom. The cleaning mechanism includes a substantially cylind... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5856650 | Method of cleaning a printer media preheater A method of cleaning a media preheater that is positioned in the media path of a printer is disclosed. The media preheater has a fixed heater and a movable plate array biased toward the heater such that printer media passing between the plate array and th... | 01/05/1999 |
| 5671475 | Electrostatographic printer for forming an image onto a web and for refurbishing the photosensitive drum An electrostatographic printer for forming an image onto a web comprises at least one toner image-producing electrostatographic station having a drum onto which a toner image can be formed, a transport for conveying a web past the image-producing station,... | 09/23/1997 |
| 5667926 | Electrophotographic apparatus and image forming process An electrophotographic apparatus comprises an electrophotographic photosensitive member, and a charging assembly, an exposure assembly, a development assembly, an image-transfer assembly, and a cleaning assembly arranged around the photosensitive member i... | 09/16/1997 |
| 5471284 | Image forming apparatus having toner depletion detection feature An image forming apparatus usable with a process cartridge for forming an image on a recording material. The process cartridge includes an image bearing member, and at least one developing device for developing a latent image formed on the image bearing m... | 11/28/1995 |
| 5339138 | Electrophotographic image formation method An electrophotographic image formation method using an electrophotographic photoconductor composed of an electroconductive support, and a photoconductive layer including a charge generation layer and a charge transport layer which are successively overlai... | 08/16/1994 |
| 5175591 | Cleaning device including abrading cleaning brush for comet control Apparatus for cleaning residual toner from a charge retentive surface is provided with a rotating abrading brush, located upstream of a primary cleaner relative to a feeding direction of the charge retentive surface. The abrading brush contacts and abrade... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5128725 | Method and apparatus for increasing toner loading of a cleaning brush for improved surface cleaning in electrophotographic imaging In an electrostatograhic imaging device of the type forming a multilevel electrostatic latent image on a surface of the imaging member, and developing the multilevel electrostatic latent image with at least two types of toner, and a brush cleaner for remo... | 07/07/1992 |
| 5122839 | Dual action blade cleaner A cleaning blade having a dual action cleaning blade. One side of the cleaning blade is coated with an abrasive material. The cleaning blade is used in an electrophotographic printing machine to remove residual particles from a photoconductive surface.... | 06/16/1992 |
| 5103266 | Electrophotographic apparatus and method of cleaning the same A method of cleaning a photosensitive member in an electrophotographic apparatus in which an electrophotographic operation is performed by charging the photosensitive member with a predetermined voltage, exposing the charged photosensitive member so as to... | 04/07/1992 |
| 5003354 | Method of removing a film from an image carrier of an image forming apparatus A method of removing a film from a photoconductive element of a color copier or similar image forming apparatus. At a suitable time when an image forming mode operation for forming a toner image on the photoconductive element is not under way, an amount o... | 03/26/1991 |
| 4975748 | Method of removing a film from an image carrier A method of removing a film which undesirably forms on a photoconductive element or similar image carrier of an image forming apparatus such as an electrophotographic copier, printer or facsimile machine. The method is implemented by a cleaning device hav... | 12/04/1990 |
