Image forming apparatus with developing bias voltage
AssigneeKYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
InventorKiyotaka Kobayashi
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a charging roller and a developing voltage application portion. The charging roller is in contact with a rotating image carrier to charge the image carrier. The developing voltage application portion applies a developing bias voltage including an AC component to a developing roller in a developing portion, when the image carrier is in a rotation state with no image. The rotation state with no image indicates a state in which the charged image carrier rotates with no electrostatic latent image being formed thereon. The developing portion supplies toner containing an external additive to the image carrier.
Claims3
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a charging roller that is in contact with a rotating image carrier to charge the image carrier;
- a developing voltage application portion configured to apply a developing bias voltage including an AC component to a developing roller in a developing portion, which supplies toner containing an external additive to the image carrier, when the charged image carrier is in a rotation state with no image in which the image carrier rotates with no electrostatic latent image being formed thereon, before a first image formation is performed and after the toner is supplied to the developing portion from a toner supply portion;
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- a transfer voltage application portion configured to apply a voltage having a polarity opposite to that of a voltage applied to transfer an image of the toner to a transfer portion which transfers the image of the toner carried by the image carrier to a transfer target member during image formation, when the image carrier is in the rotation state with no image and the developing bias voltage is applied to the developing roller.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.