Vibration method to reduce and/or eliminate friction/noise
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsKamran U. Zaman, Stanley J. Pietrzykowski, JR.
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Abstract
A small vibrator is connected to a cleaning blade or cleaning blade holder in an electrostatic marking system. This vibrator in a cycle out step moves the blade up and down and reduces thereby overall contact with the photoconductor surface; this reduces any noise caused by blade contact with the photoconductor surface during cycling out or down of the marking procedure.
Claims18
An electrostatic marking system or machine comprising in an operative arrangement, a photoconductor (PC) surface and a PC surface cleaning blade with a blade holder, said cleaning blade or said blade holder having a vibrator operatively connected thereto, said vibrator enabled to vibrate said blade and enabled to reduce the overall contact of said blade to said photoconductor surface during a cycle down and thereby reduce any noise resulting therefrom.
An electrostatic marking system or machine which comprises in an operative arrangement, a photoconductive (PC) surface, a cleaning blade, a cleaning blade holder and a vibrator, said cleaning blade adapted to clean said photoconductive surface during a marking operation, said vibrator in operative contact with either or both said cleaning blade and said cleaning blade holder, said vibrator enabled to reduce a grunt noise caused by blade-PC contact during a cycle out operation, said vibrator activated by a member selected from the group consisting of a mechanical activator, an audio sensor, a timer or mixtures thereof, said vibrator enabled to reduce said grunt noise substantially from a non-vibrator cleaning system as indicated by human hearing.
A cleaning blade assembler for use in an electrostatic marking system comprising in an operative arrangement a cleaning blade, a cleaning blade holder and a vibrator, said vibrator enabled to vibrate said blade and reduce its contact with a PC surface during cycle down operation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.