Developer material coating apparatus
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsShigeru Kagayama, Tetsuya Kitamura
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Abstract
A developer material coating apparatus for coating a developer toner on a support member such as a plain paper to form an image on the support member, includes a developer toner coating unit for triboelectrically charging the developer toner and electrostatically coating the charged developer toner on the support member and at least one of heaters for heating the support member before and/or after the support member being coated with the charged developer toner, thereby to heighten adhesion between the support member and the developer toner.
Claims12
A developer material coating apparatus for coating a developer toner on a support member in a feeding passage to form an uniform, continuous developer toner layer on the support member, comprising:
- developer toner coating means for triboelectrically charging the developer toner and electrostatically coating the charged developer toner on the support member thereby forming a developer layer on the support member;
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- heating means for heating the support member so that the developer toner layer is prevented from falling off from the support member after the support member is coated with the charged developer toner, thereby increasing adhesion between the support member and the developer toner layer.
A developer material coating apparatus, comprising:
- developer toner coating means for triboelectrically charging developer toner and electrostatically coating the charged developer toner on a support member thereby forming an uniform and continuous developer layer on the support member;
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- heating means for heating the support member at least one of before and after the support member is coated with the charged developer toner, thereby increasing adhesion between the support member and the developer toner layer so that said developer toner layer can subsequently develop an image by contact with a microcapsule sheet containing an undeveloped image.
An apparatus, comprising:
- exposure means for exposing a microcapsule sheet to imaging light;
- developer toner coating means for triboelectrically charging developer toner and electrostatically coating the charged developer toner on a support member thereby forming a developer layer in a continuous and uniform manner on the support member;
- heating means for heating the support member at least one of before and after the support member is coated with the charged developer toner, thereby increasing adhesion between the support member and the developer toner layer;
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- pressure developing means for pressing the coated support member and the exposed microcapsule sheet together, and forming a visible image on the support member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.