Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus equipped with an electrographic photoreceptor having a surface with low surface free energy
- Patent Title (中): 配备有具有低表面自由能的表面的电子感光体的图像形成装置
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Application No.: US10545439Application Date: 2004-02-13
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Publication No.: US07693453B2Publication Date: 2010-04-06
- Inventor: Mikio Kakui , Koichi Toriyama , Kotaro Fukushima , Hisayuki Utsumi , Sayaka Fujita , Akiko Uchino , Katsuru Matsumoto
- Applicant: Mikio Kakui , Koichi Toriyama , Kotaro Fukushima , Hisayuki Utsumi , Sayaka Fujita , Akiko Uchino , Katsuru Matsumoto
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka-shi
- Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka-shi
- Agency: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP
- Priority: JPP2003-036890 20030214; JPP2003-114433 20030418; JPP2003-139078 20030516; JPP2003-355547 20031015
- International Application: PCT/JP2004/001543 WO 20040213
- International Announcement: WO2004/072738 WO 20040826
- Main IPC: G03G15/00
- IPC: G03G15/00

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus having excellent cleaning property for an electrophotographic photoreceptor and capable of forming a high-quality, high-resolution image. A surface free energy (γ) of a photoreceptor (2), which is provided in the image forming apparatus (1), is set to 20 to 35 mN/m. A volume average diameter of toner particles included in a developer stored in a developing unit (29) to develop an electrostatic latent image and form a toner image is set to 4-7 μm When γ of the photoreceptor (2) is set to within a small range as the particle size of toner is reduced, even small-particle-size toner having increased specific surface area and largely affected by a inter-molecular force is limited in adhesion to the surface of the photoreceptor (2) to provide a good cleaning property and a high-quality image can be formed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20060210311A1 Image forming device Public/Granted day:2006-09-21
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