Image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMasahiro Shibata, Masahiro Yoshida, Kazunori Hashimoto, Kazuhiro Okubo, Hisashi Yamauchi
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a toner carrying member for supplying toner to an image bearing member to visualize the latent image; a rotatable toner supply member, contacted to the toner carrying member, for supplying toner to the image bearing member; a voltage applying device for applying voltages to the toner carrying member and the toner supply member; and a controller for controlling the voltage applying device to control voltages applied to the toner carrying member and the toner supplying member.
Claims8
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- an image bearing member for bearing a latent image;
- a toner carrying member for supplying toner to said image bearing member to visualize the latent image;
- a rotatable toner supply member, contacted to said toner carrying member, for supplying the toner to the toner carrying member, said toner supply member including a surface foam layer;
- a voltage applying device for applying voltages to said toner carrying member and said toner supply member;
- a controller for controlling said voltage applying device such that A and B have a polarity which is the same as a regular charging polarity of the toner,
- where
- A=Vs2−Vd2,
- B=(Vs2−Vd2)−(Vs1−Vd1),
- Vd1 is a voltage applied to said toner carrying member by said voltage applying device during a period in which the latent image is visualized,
- Vs1 is a voltage applied to said toner supplying member during the period,
- vd2 is a voltage applied to said toner carrying member by said voltage applying device during at least a part of a period which is after application of the voltage Vd1 and before stoppage of rotation of said toner supplying member, and
- Vs2 is a voltage applied to said toner supplying member during said at least the part of the period.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.