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US07693453B2 Image forming apparatus equipped with an electrographic photoreceptor having a surface with low surface free energy 有权
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

Image forming apparatus equipped with an electrographic photoreceptor having a surface with low surface free energy
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.
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