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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8041281 | Cleaning device, image forming apparatus, and process cartridge A cleaning device removes residual toner particles from a cleaning target, such as a photoconductor, which has a moving surface. The cleaning device includes a cleaning brush, a power circuit, and a cleaning member. The cleaning brush includes a brush rotation shaft... | 10/18/2011 |
| 7835682 | Image forming apparatus and cleaning control section Disclosed is an image forming apparatus, comprising: an image carrier; a brush to remove toner remaining on the image carrier by scrubbing a surface of the image carrier; a flicker to remove the toner adhering to the brush by contacting to the brush; a brush driving... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7437088 | Image forming apparatus including first and second cleaning members with applied voltages based on recording material type An image forming apparatus having an image bearing member rotatable and bearing a toner image thereon, a transferring apparatus for electrostatically transferring the toner image born on the image bearing member to a recording material, a cleaning apparatus for elec... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7421240 | Asymmetric AC cleaner for improved toner charge distribution in scavenging development systems This is a cleaning system useful in an electrophotographic marking system which takes up a small space in space important marking apparatus. It involves applying an asymmetric AC wave-form to a cleaning brush. Wrong sign or unwanted toner will be attracted to this c... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7418218 | Conductive backer brush for electrostatic brush cleaning of a belt without a ground layer A transfer cleaning station for an electrostatic marking system is provided. In this station, the upper surface of a movable transfer belt is cleaned by a rotating electrostatic cleaning brush (ESB). To improve cleaning performance and conserve space, a grounded con... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7403729 | Image forming apparatus featuring first and second cleaning members wherein a voltage applied to the second cleaning member is changeable An image forming apparatus including an image bearing member bearing thereon a toner image charged to a predetermined polarity, a transferring device for electrostatically transferring the toner image borne on the image bearing member to a recording material, first ... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7398046 | Process cartridge and image forming apparatus cleaning method and cleaning device with improved lubricity A process cartridge detachably mounted on an image forming apparatus, includes a cleaning blade which comes into contact with a surface of a member to be cleaned incorporated in the image forming apparatus and removes a residual toner adhering to the surface, and a ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7383013 | Image forming apparatus using a contact or a proximity type of charging system including a protection substance on a moveable body to be charged An image forming apparatus of the present invention includes a movable body to be charged and a charger including a charging member that contacts or adjoins the body to be charged and applies a voltage, including an AC component, to the charging member for thereby c... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7383004 | Image forming apparatus A pulse-like DC voltage is applied from two power sources to transfer residual toner uniformizing means and toner charge amount control means, respectively, to expel transfer residual toner deposited on these means from these means onto a photosensitive drum. In a l... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7286777 | Image forming device with cleaning sequence process for returning toner adhered on transfer roller back to photoconductive drum An image forming device includes an image forming unit that includes an image carrier which carries an electrostatic latent image, a developing unit which forms a developing nip by contacting with the image carrier and develops the latent image by using toner, a tra... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7280798 | Image forming apparatus with conveying device urging a recording material toward a charge eliminating member The image forming apparatus has an image bearing member for bearing a toner, a transfer device which forms a transfer area in cooperation with the image bearing member for transferring the toner on the image bearing member onto a recording material, a charge elimina... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7260343 | Gear assembly used with an image forming apparatus, an optical photoconductive (OPC) unit having the same, and a method of driving the gear assembly An organic photoconductive (OPC) unit of an image forming apparatus and a gear assembly arranged in the OPC unit. The gear assembly includes a drum gear formed on a flange of an OPC drum, a cleaning gear driven by a receiving power from the drum gear, and at least o... | 08/21/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7251430 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus has: an image bearing member that bears a toner image and moves; a transfer means that transfers the toner image on the image bearing member to a transfer medium; a first eliminating member that comes in contact with the image bearing memb... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7251432 | System for collecting an unfixed developer with an airflow The invention provides a fixing unit including a fixing roller and a pressure roller pressed against the fixing roller inside a housing, for holding and conveying a sheet carrying an image formed by a developer between the fixing roller and the pressure roller thus ... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7233755 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus which reduces abrasion of a photosensitive drum caused by a rotary brush such as an charging brush for electrically charging the surface of a photosensitive drum or a cleaning brush for cleaning the surface of a photosensitive drum. The ro... | 06/19/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7221898 | Charged particles cleaning apparatus having a biased manifold A charged particles cleaning apparatus for cleaning and removing charged particles from a surface includes (a) a housing; (b) a surface scrubbing member mounted within the housing for contacting the surface and frictionally removing charged particles therefrom; (c) ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7221890 | Image forming apparatus An apparatus having image forming units to form respective toner images of different colors on a toner-image receiving medium, each unit including an image carrier, a static-latent-image forming portion to form a static latent image on the image carrier, a developin... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7215920 | Imaging forming apparatus An image forming apparatus which can quickly remove remaining toner even after it has been emergently stopped when it forms an image by the use of an intermediate transfer member. An image forming apparatus for primary-transferring a toner image formed on a photosen... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7197264 | Image forming apparatus It is intended to provide an image forming apparatus capable of conducting charge adjustment of post-transfer residual toner appropriately by securing a contact area of a temporarily-collecting member and an electrode, without applying excessive deformation load to ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7177583 | Image forming apparatus and copier An image forming apparatus including a photoreceptor having an electroconductive substrate, a photosensitive layer overlying the electroconductive substrate, and a protection layer including an inorganic filler in an amount of from 3 to 25% by weight based on total ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7174593 | Vacuum cleaner having an ion generator A vacuum cleaner includes an electric blower for generating a suction air flow, a suction head in communication with the electric blower for drawing in dirt, a filter bag communication with the electric blower for capturing and collecting dirt, an exhaust unit for d... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7167665 | Foreign material removing system, method of removing foreign material, printing apparatus and printing method The present removing system has a feature to remove a left-over toner that is accumulated on a brush that touches a left-over toner on a photoreceptor. More specifically, the present removing system is so arranged that an alternating voltage (superimposing voltage) ... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7162187 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method In an image forming apparatus, a toner image is formed on a photosensitive element and a transfer roller, which carries a transfer medium, is pressed against a photosensitive element at a pressure of from 20.4 N/cm2 to 200 N/cm2. ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7130564 | Method and apparatus for image forming capable of removing residual toner without using a toner cleaning system, process cartridge for use in the apparatus and toner used for the image forming An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member configured to form an electrostatic latent image on a surface thereof, and a separating mechanism configured to separate an irregular charge toner from a residual toner remaining on the surface of the image... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7107600 | System and method for cleaning electrical delivery systems System and method for cleaning an electrical delivery system. An embodiment of the self-cleaning electrical delivery system comprises a track having an abrasive surface and a brush operatively associated with the track, the brush moving over the abrasive surface of ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7092659 | Discharge methods and systems in electrophotography Latent charge images are provided on a photoconductor element having a photoconductive layer with a conductive stripe. This process is performed by charging the photoconductive layer with a charge having a particular vector to form a uniform charge on the photocondu... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7055675 | Conveyor belt cleaning system An assembly for cleaning a conveyor belt system is disclosed. The cleaning assembly is for a conveyor belt system with the type having first and second endless belts which each traverse a separate belt travel path and together define a generally upright article tran... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7043187 | Conductive fiber brush cleaner having brush speed control A method and structure for an image processing apparatus that includes an image bearing surface adapted to receive electrostatically charged toner, a cleaning brush adapted to remove waste particles from the image bearing surface, a detone roller adapted to remove t... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7003255 | Image forming apparatus and process cartridge An image forming process and apparatus, the apparatus including a toner container, a transfer belt below the toner container, a process cartridge below the transfer belt, and an imaging device below the process cartridge. The process cartridge includes a rotating im... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6980765 | Dual polarity electrostatic brush cleaner An apparatus for removing charged particles from a surface, the surface being capable of movement, including: a conductive brush in contact with the surface, the conductive brush having a first region thereof having a first polarity and a second region having a seco... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6973275 | Image forming device An image forming device includes an image forming unit that includes a photoconductive drum which carries an electrostatic latent image, a developing roller which forms a developing nip by contacting the photoconductive drum and develops the latent image by using to... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6962557 | Device for welding plastic films Devices for cross-welding or cross-separating welding plastic films (2) are used in a manner known per se in machines for producing bags, said devices comprising a welding roller (3) and a heated welder terminal (4) which can be moved reciprocal... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6959164 | Apparatus for cleaning a pressure roll in a fusing station The invention generally relates to the field of fusing powder toner images on receiver sheets. According to various aspects of the invention, methods and apparatus are provided of cleaning, only during standby, a pressure roller that cooperates with a fuser roller i... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6954609 | Image forming apparatus featuring a cleaning brush for removing residual developer An electrophotographic apparatus comprises a photosensitive member, exposing means, and cleaning means for cleaning a residual developer from the photosensitive member, which comprises a cleaning brush brought into contact with the photosensitive member. In this cas... | 10/11/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6871030 | Image forming apparatus The invention is directed to a paper dust removing device used in an image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus has a latent image member that receives the latent image produced by a charge differential on the surface of the latent image device. A developi... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6868252 | Cleaning device and image forming apparatus using the same In an image forming apparatus, after the development of a latent image formed on an image carrier effected by using toner, which has a volume mean grain size of 5 μm to 10 μm and in which 60 number percent to 80 number percent of toner grains have a grain size of ... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6829445 | Image forming apparatus having a cleaning mechanism for cleaning a photosensitive member An image forming apparatus including a photosensitive member that holds an image formed by a developing agent, a charging device that charges a surface of the photosensitive member, a voltage applying device that applies a voltage to the charging device, a first cle... | 12/07/2004 |
