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| 20090258164 | CARBON STRUCTURE MANUFACTURING DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD - This invention relates to a carbon structure manufacturing device, which forms carbon structures on a substrate. This manufacturing device comprises a first chamber, which forms a first space accommodating the substrate; a raw material gas supply device, which supplies raw material gas for formation of the carbon structures to the first space; a second chamber, which forms a second space separate from the first space; a gas supply device, which supplies gas for generation of plasma to the second space; a plasma generation device, which generates plasma in the second space; an aperture, connecting the first space and the second space; and, a plasma introduction device, which introduces plasma generated in the second space into the first space via the aperture; the raw material gas is used to form the carbon structures on the substrate. By means of this manufacturing device, when forming carbon structures on the substrate, the occurrence of contamination, foreign matter, and/or the like on electrodes and/or the like can be suppressed, and carbon structures can be formed satisfactorily over a broad area. | 10-15-2009 |
| 20090279930 | PROTECTIVE MATERIAL AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING THE PROTECTIVE MATERIAL - A protective material block including a metal soap, wherein the surface of the protective material block has an X-ray diffraction pattern wherein a ratio (P | 11-12-2009 |
| 20090285613 | IMAGE-BEARING MEMBER PROTECTING AGENT, PROTECTIVE LAYER FORMING DEVICE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - To provide an image-bearing member protecting agent used for forming a protective layer on a surface of an image bearing member, the agent including: a compressed powder body formed by pressurizing a powder containing at least a fatty acid metal salt (A) and an inorganic lubricant (B), wherein a ratio Db/Da of an average particle diameter Db of the inorganic lubricant (B) to an average particle diameter Da of the fatty acid metal salt (A) satisfies 0| 11-19-2009 | |
| 20090290919 | IMAGE-BEARING MEMBER PROTECTING AGENT, PROTECTIVE LAYER FORMING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - To provide an image-bearing member protecting agent used in an image forming method which includes applying or attaching the agent onto a surface of an image bearing member, the agent including: a fatty acid metal salt (A), and an inorganic lubricant (B), wherein the inorganic lubricant (B) has an average particle diameter of 0.1 μm to 14 μm. | 11-26-2009 |
| 20090304423 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - An image forming apparatus including a charging unit configured to charge a surface of an image bearing member utilizing discharge generated by applying a voltage containing an alternating current component to a charging member disposed in contact with or close to the image bearing member, so that a latent electrostatic image is formed on the image bearing member; a developing unit configured to develop the latent electrostatic image formed on the image bearing member using a toner; a cleaning unit configured to clean the surface of the image bearing member using a blade; a protecting agent applying unit configured to rub and scrape a protecting agent by a brush roller and apply the protecting agent to the surface of the image bearing member; and a protecting agent charging member configured to charge the protecting agent, the member being disposed between the protecting agent applying unit and the charging unit. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20090311014 | IMAGE-BEARING MEMBER PROTECTING AGENT, PROTECTIVE LAYER FORMING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - To provide an image-bearing member protecting agent used in an image forming method which includes applying or attaching the agent onto a surface of an image bearing member, the agent including: a fatty acid metal salt and boron nitride, wherein the boron nitride includes secondary particles composed of aggregated fine crystals, and wherein the crystals have an average primary particle diameter of 0.1 μm to 1.0 μm and an average secondary particle diameter of 3.0 μm to 14.0 μm. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20090320962 | CARBURIZING APPARATUS AND CARBURIZING METHOD - A carburizing apparatus that performs a vacuum carburizing treatment with respect to an object includes: a carburizing furnace that contains the object; a gas supply apparatus that supplies a carburizing gas to the carburizing furnace; a light emitting device that emits light by using an in-furnace gas inside of the carburizing furnace which is supplied with the carburizing gas; a light receiving device that receives light emitted from the light emitting device; and a processing device that calculates the composition of the in-furnace gas based on the light receiving result of the light receiving device. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20100034560 | Image-bearing member protecting agent, protective layer forming device, image forming method, process cartridge and image forming apparatus - The present invention provides an image-bearing member protecting agent containing a fatty acid metal salt, and boron nitride, wherein the boron nitride has an oxygen content of 0.4% by mass to 4.5% by mass, and wherein the image-bearing member protecting agent is applied or attached onto a surface of an image bearing member. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100054829 | Protective layer forming device, image forming apparatus and process cartridge - A protective layer forming device including an image-bearing member protecting agent which contains a fatty acid metal salt and an inorganic lubricant, a protecting agent supply member configured to apply a surface of the image bearing member with the image-bearing member protecting agent, and a leveling member configured to level off the image-bearing member protecting agent applied on the surface of the image bearing member, wherein the leveling member serves as a cleaning blade having a ridge part with an obtuse angle, which comes into contact with the surface of the image bearing member in a direction counter to the rotation of the image bearing member. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100183972 | Image-bearing member protecting agent, protective layer forming device, image forming method, image forming apparatus, and process cartridge - An image-bearing member protecting agent including: a hydrophobic organic compound (A); an inorganic lubricant (B); and inorganic fine particles (C), wherein each of the inorganic fine particles (C) has a specific surface area of 2.0 m | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100209143 | Image forming apparatus and process cartridge - An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member configured to bear a toner image, a protective layer forming device configured to apply a protective agent to a surface of the image bearing member with a brush-shaped protective agent applicator, and a surface roughness maintainer configured to maintain a surface roughness Ry of a contact surface of the protective agent with the brush-shaped protective agent applicator at 500 μm or less. The protective agent is a solid material in which a granular material comprising a fatty acid metallic salt is compressed. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100239309 | Image-bearing member protecting agent, protective layer forming device, image forming method, image forming apparatus, and process cartridge - An image-bearing member protecting agent including a fatty acid metal salt, and an inorganic lubricant, wherein the image-bearing member protecting agent is a solid formed by compression molding a particulate or granulated raw material containing the fatty acid metal salt and the inorganic lubricant, and applied or adhered to a surface of an image bearing member, and wherein the image-bearing member protecting agent has a front surface which is a side of the image-bearing member protecting agent. to be used at the beginning, and a rear surface which is a side thereof to be left when most of the image-bearing member protecting agent is used up, and the image-bearing member protecting agent has a density decreasing from the front surface toward the rear surface. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100278558 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND APPARATUS - The image forming apparatus includes a latent image bearing member; a charging device charging the surface of the latent image bearing member; a latent image forming device forming an electrostatic latent image on the surface of the latent image bearing member; a developing device supplying toner to the electrostatic latent image to form a toner image; a cover film supplying device supplying a cover film to the surface of the latent image bearing member at a cover film supplying position located on an upstream side from the development position so that the toner image is formed on the cover film covering the surface of the latent image bearing member; and a cover film separating device separating the cover film bearing the toner image thereon from the surface of the image bearing member before the cover film bearing the toner image thereon reaches the cover film supplying position. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20110008088 | Image forming method, image forming apparatus, and process cartridge - The image forming method includes applying a protective agent including a fatty acid metal salt to a surface of an image bearing member; forming an electrostatic latent image on the surface of the image bearing member; and developing the electrostatic latent image with a developer including toner and boron nitride to form a visual image. The image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member; a latent image forming device configured to form an electrostatic latent image on a surface of the image bearing member; developing device configured to develop the electrostatic latent image with a developer including toner and boron nitride to form a visual image on the surface of the image bearing member; and a protective agent applying device configured to apply a protective agent including a fatty acid metal salt to the surface of the image bearing member. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110085824 | IMAGE BEARING MEMBER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image bearing member including an electroconductive substrate, a photosensitive layer provided overlying the electroconductive substrate, an optional layer overlying the photosensitive layer, and boron nitride attached to at least part of the surface of an outermost layer. | 04-14-2011 |
