Electrophotographic apparatus and image forming process
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsAkio Maruyama, Harumi Sako, Kazushige Nakamura, Shoji Amamiya
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Abstract
An electrophotographic apparatus comprises an electrophotographic photosensitive member, and a charging assembly, an exposure assembly, a development assembly, an image-transfer assembly, and a cleaning assembly arranged around the photosensitive member in this order, wherein the photosensitive member has a surface layer containing fluoroplastic particles; and the electrophotographic apparatus further comprises a polishing assembly for polishing the surface of the photosensitive member after the transfer assembly and before the cleaning assembly.
Claims30
An electrophotographic apparatus comprising an electrophotographic photosensitive member, and a charging means for charging the photosensitive member, an exposure means for irradiating imagewise the charged photosensitive member to form an electrostatic latent image, a development means for developing the formed electrostatic latent image, an image-transfer means for transferring the developed image onto an image-receiving means, and a cleaning means for cleaning the surface of the photosensitive member after transferring the developed image arranged around the photosensitive member in this order;
- the photosensitive member having a surface layer containing fluoroplastic particles;
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- the electrophotographic apparatus further comprising a polishing means for polishing the surface of the photosensitive member after the transfer means and before the cleaning means.
An image forming process comprising a charging step for charging the photosensitive member, an exposure step for irradiating the electrified photosensitive member to form an electrostatic latent image, a development step for developing the formed electrostatic latent image, an image-transfer step for transferring the developed image onto an image-receiving member, and a cleaning step for cleaning the surface of the photosensitive member after transferring the developed image, the steps being conducted in this order:
- the photosensitive member having a surface layer containing fluoroplastic particles;
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- the image forming process further comprising a polishing step for polishing the surface of the photosensitive member after the image-transfer step and before the cleaning step.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.