Abstract: An image recording apparatus including a recording electrode having electrode needles aligned in columns, a driving circuit for individually applying an image recording voltage to the electrode needles of the recording electrode, a recording medium composed of a conductive layer and a surface insulating layer, and a voltage circuit for applying a predetermined voltage between the recording medium and the electrode needles, whereby fog on the recorded image can be avoided.

Abstract: This invention provides a method for producing an oxide superconductor which has a uniform texture and is markedly high in sintered density and current density.The method involves the formation of intermediate products from the starting materials. The intermediate products are then used to form the final product. Specifically, to form an oxide superconducting material having a compositional formulaYBa.sub.2 CU.sub.3 O.sub.7-8,where 8 is more than zero but less than 0.5, the method of the invention includes forming a first intermediate product of Y.sub.2 CU.sub.2 O.sub.5, forming a second intermediate product of BaCuO.sub.2, mixing the first and second intermediate products, and sintering the intermediate product mixture to form the oxide superconducting material.

Abstract: A printing machine according to the present invention, comprises electrically conductive and magnetically inductive printing toner, an array of electrode-needles contacting with toner, each of the electrode-needles arranged apart from the adjacent electrode-needles in the array and individually energized in accordance with a desired printing pattern to electrify the toner communicating electrically with the energized electrode-needle, recording means including an electrically conductive portion and an insulating surface which extends on the electrically conductive portion and is arranged away from the array of electrode-needles to face thereto and to contact with the toner arranged between the electrode-needles and the insulating surface, the voltage applied to the electrically conductive portion being positive when the voltage applied to the energized electrode-needles is negative or the voltage applied to the electrically conductive portion being negative when the voltage applied to the energized electrode-

Abstract: An electrostatic recording head for causing a developing agent to be electrostatically deposited on the surface of a recording member in accordance with a recorded image, comprising a recording electrode having a plurality of linear electrodes arranged in a common plane at a predetermined interval; a magnet disposed at one side of the recording electrode; and a magnetic member disposed at the side of the recording electrode opposite to the magnet; the magnet being disposed such that the magnetic lines of force pass through the end of the recording electrode towards the portion of a recording member opposed by the end of the recording electrode. The present invention also relates to a method of producing this electrostatic recording head. The invention also is concerned with an image recording apparatus which employs this electrostatic recording head, as well as with a developing agent supplying device and a display device.

Abstract: A heat roll for electrophotography of a surface heating type having a heating resistor is arranged such that a bonding layer, an insulating layer, a resistance layer, and a surface insulating layer are consecutively provided on an outer surface of a hollow cylindrical core, and a bearing member for fitting with a bearing is fitted at each opposite end of the heat roll. A pipe or a round bar formed of aluminum, an aluminum alloy, copper, a copper alloy, or the like which has a greater coefficient of thermal conductivity than that of mild steel is disposed inside the core to permit a uniform distribution of the temperature. In addition, a gap of 0.2 mm or more is provided between the inner surface of the core and an outer peripheral surface of the member formed of the high-temperature conductive material.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for recording an image is disclosed, in which toner is supplied between a conductive recording drum covered with an insulating material and recording electrodes with the forward end thereof with a small gap from the drum and inclined at a great angle upstream of the direction of rotation of the recording drum. A toner carriage force is generated in the toner to flow out downstream by rotation of the recording drum. A permanent magnet is arranged in the recording drum to form a toner chain inclined at a great angle downstream of the recording drum from the forward end of the recording electrodes. The component of the magnetic force of the magnet in the direction of drum movement is balanced with the toner carriage force.

Abstract: The roller has a roller body having a small electrical resistivity, a bonding layer formed substantially uniformly on the outer peripheral surface of the roller body, a lower insulating layer provided on the bonding layer; a heat generating layer provided on the lower insulating layer and a ceramic matrix and a metallic resistance layer, constituted by a metal dispersed in the ceramic matrix, the metallic resistance layer extending substantially continuously in the lengthwise direction of the roller, a heat generating layer, an upper insulating layer provided on the heat generating layer, a protective layer formed on the upper insulating layer so as to prevent offset of the toner images, an electrode layer formed on each end of the roller and adapted to connect the heat generating layer to an external power source; and side protective layers covering at least the side surface of the heat generating layer, and the side surfaces and the axially outside surfaces of the lower insulating layer.

Abstract: The roller has a roller body having a small heat capacity, a bonding layer formed substantially uniformaly on the outer peripheral surface of the roller body, a lower insulating layer provided on the bonding layer; a heat generating layer provided on the lower insulating layer and having a ceramic matrix and a metallic resistance layer constituted by a metal dispersed in the ceramic matrix, the metallic resistance layer extending substantially continuously in the lengthwise direction of the roller, the heat generating layer having a thermal expansion coefficient substantially the same that of the lower insulating layer, an upper insulating layer provided on the heat generating layer, a protective layer formed on the upper insulating layer so as to prevent offset of the toner images, and an electrode layer formed on each end of the roller and adapted to connect the heat generating layer to an external power source.

Abstract: A manufacturing process of Co-Ni magnetic recording media by sputtering Co-Ni thin film layer on a substrate in Argon atomsphere including nitrogen and heating the thin film to evaporate nitrogen from the thin film to prepare the magnetic recording media appropriate for high density longitudinal recording, wherein on sputtering the substrate is maintained at a temperature of room temperature to 300.degree. C.

Abstract: In a method of developing triboelectric magnetic toner, an electrostatic latent image is formed on a substance, the latent image is developed by a magnetic brush method using a ferrite carrier of semiconductivity and a triboelectric magnetic tonor, and the developed toner image is transferred to a transfer member and fixed.By adding the semiconductive ferrite carrier, a lump of tonor is broken with a mechanical force of the carrier so as to increase the flowability of the tonor and to prevent the agglomeration of the tonor due to dielectric charging.

Abstract: An electrophotographic ferrite carrier with substantially spherical shape based on a magnetoplumbite structure of hexagonal ferrite or ferroxplana structure derived from the magnetoplumbite structure has a high electrical resistivity and a longer life.

Abstract: A magnetic head which uses single crystal Mn-Zn ferrite containing up to 7% by weight of SnO.sub.2 occluded therein without being allowed to separate and which has such a construction that glass having a contraction rate lower than that of ferrite is filled in the narrowed portion near the gap, the plane forming the principal magnetic circuit of the core is allowed to coincide with the {110} plane of the ferrite and an angle .theta. between the <100> direction inside the {110} plane of the ferrite and the gap-forming plane is from 5.degree. to 40.degree. or 85.degree. to 120.degree.. The magnetic head having such a construction has a reduced modulation noise and extremely excellent write-and-read characteristics.