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US 5,184,180 AGranted
Method for supplying power to a copying machine
AssigneeGold Star Co., Ltd.
InventorHoon B. Choi
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Abstract
In the copying machine including an electrifier, a developer, a developer roller, a transcriber, a discharging brush, a cleaning blade, a cleaning portion and a front and a rear guides, the guide and the discharging brush are grounds, the predetermined symmetric AC voltage is directly applied to the drum to generate the asymmetric AC power in the surface of a photosensitive drum.
Claims13
A method for supplying power to a copying machine comprising the steps of:
- generating a uniform potential on a surface of a photosensitive drum through an electrifier;
- changing the potential in a predetermined portion through an enveloper to form a latent image;
- attracting toner from a developer having a developer roller on said photosensitive drum corresponding to the latent image;
- transcribing by a transcriber the attracted toner on paper supplied through a guide;
- discharging by a discharging brush a charge generated on the paper supporting a transcribed image, said guide and said discharging brush being grounded;
- supplying a predetermined DC voltage to said developer roller, electrifier and transcriber;
- and
- supplying a symmetric AC voltage to said photosensitive drum concurrently with the supplying of said predetermined DC voltage to said developer roller, wherein said predetermined DC voltage supplying step and said symmetric AC voltage supplying step generate an asymmetric AC power on the surface of said photosensitive drum.
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A method for supplying power to a copying machine comprising the steps of:
- generating a uniform potential on a surface of a photosensitive drum through an electrifier;
- changing the potential in a predetermined portion through an enveloper to form a latent image;
- attracting toner from a developer having a developer roller on said photosensitive drum corresponding to the latent image;
- transcribing by a transcriber the attracted toner on paper supplied through a guide;
- discharging by a discharging brush a charge generated on the paper supporting a transcribed image, said guide and said discharging brush being grounded;
- supplying a predetermined DC voltage to said developer roller, electrifier and transcriber;
- and
- supplying a symmetric AC voltage to said photosensitive drum, wherein said predetermined DC voltage supplying step and said symmetric AC voltage supplying step generate an asymmetric AC power on the surface of said photosensitive drum, and wherein said DC voltage and said symmetric AC power are concurrently supplied to said developer roller.
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A method for supplying power to a copying machine comprising the steps of:
- generating a uniform potential on a surface of a photosensitive drum through an electrifier;
- changing the potential in a predetermined portion through an enveloper to form a latent image;
- attracting toner from a developer having a developer roller on said photosensitive drum corresponding to the latent image;
- transcribing by a transcriber the attracted toner on paper supplied through a guide;
- discharging by a discharging brush a charge generated on the paper supporting a transcribed image, said guide and said discharging brush being grounded;
- supplying a predetermined DC voltage to said developer roller, electrifier and transcriber;
- and
- supplying a symmetric AC voltage to said photosensitive drum, said predetermined DC voltage supplying step and said symmetric AC voltage supplying step generate an asymmetric AC power on the surface of said photosensitive drum, wherein
- the potential of the enveloped portion of the surface of the photosensitive drum has an absolute value represented by .vertline.VL.vertline., the potential of the unenveloped portion of the surface of said photosensitive drum has an absolute value represented by .vertline.VH.vertline., and the potential supplied to said developer roller has an absolute value represented by .vertline.VD.vertline., said .vertline.VD.vertline. being a value between said absolute value of the potential to attract said toner to the enveloped portion and the unenveloped portion of the surface of said photosensitive drum by a polarity of said toner such that .vertline.VL.vertline.<.vertline.VD.vertline.<.vertline.VH.vertline..
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A method for supplying power to a copying machine comprising the steps of:
- generating a uniform potential on a surface of a photosensitive drum through an electrifier;
- changing the potential in a predetermined portion through an enveloper to form a latent image;
- attracting toner from a developer having a developer roller on said photosensitive drum corresponding to the latent image;
- transcribing by a transcriber the attracted toner on paper supplied through a guide;
- discharging by a discharging brush a charge generated on the paper supporting a transcribed image, said guide and said discharging brush being grounded;
- supplying a predetermined DC voltage to said developer roller, electrifier and transcriber;
- and
- supplying a symmetric AC voltage to said photosensitive drum, wherein said predetermined DC voltage supplying step and said symmetric AC voltage supplying step generate an asymmetric AC power on the surface of said photosensitive drum, wherein
- the predetermined DC voltage supplied to said transcriber in the predetermined DC voltage supplying step has a polarity that is opposite to that of said toner and a magnitude larger than a predetermined DC level of the symmetric AC voltage supplied to said photosensitive drum to transfer and to attract said toner from said photosensitive drum to the paper.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.