Abstract: There is provided an electrolytic integrated polishing apparatus which enables high precision polishing of the internal surface of a long sized cylindrical workpiece such as a metallic tube. The apparatus includes a work supporting unit 13 for disposing the cylindrical workpiece W, so that the axial center of the cylindrical portion is aligned with the vertical direction, a rotation shaft 4 supported downward along the vertical direction and free-rotatably supported in an external tube 3 which is freely movable along the vertical direction, a tool electrode 5 including a grindstone directed to radial directions, attached to the tip of the rotation shaft 4, and a plastic tube 6 wound around the external surface of the external tube 3 for pressurization.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a mirror surface tube for a photosensitive drum of a copying machine or the like, by which an external surface of an aluminium or aluminium alloy tube can be mirror-processed with high accuracy without surface defects, and in such a way that good quality required for a photosensitive drum is ensured and dimension accuracy, such as roundness, and production yield is improved involves a first step in which an aluminium or aluminium alloy tube, finished in a predetermined shape and dimension with surface roughness of 10 microns or less, is processed by a centerless grinding process. Then, in a second step, a grinding process is performed using an electrolytic integrated polishing apparatus including a tool electrode mechanism having an elastic grindstone so as to make a mirror surface tube having the surface roughness of 2.0 microns or less. Further, preferably, in a third stage, a roller burnishing process is performed to finish the tube to a surface roughness of 0.5 microns or less.

Abstract: Providing an electrolytic integrated polishing method for metal workpieces using a special abrasive material which leaves no residual abrasive grains on surfaces of soft metals such as aluminium, and the like, and allows high-precision abrasion for optimal surface treatments such as an anodized aluminium finish at the next process. The electrolytic integrated polishing device performs rough abrasion and medium abrasion processes to the inner surface of an aluminium cylindrical workpiece by an elastic grindstone. Thereafter, the electrolytic integrated polishing device uses a sheet-form abrasive material for finishing abrasion.

Abstract: A method for mirror processing of an external surface of a long-sized metal piece, by which the external surface is mirror-polished with precision and high efficiency without a surface defect or so that stable dimensional accuracy, such as a roundness and improvement of yield in production, can be obtained. The method comprises the steps of clamping both ends of a long-sized metal piece, applying a positive electrical charge and rotating the metal piece, and moving the long-sized metal in the axial direction through an electrolytic integrated polishing apparatus for processing the external surface of a long-sized metal piece into a mirror surface.

Abstract: To provide an electrolytic integrated polishing method for the external surface of metallic tubes, wherein both dimensional precision such as roundness or the like and product yield can be improved, and aluminum alloy photosensitive drum substrates prepared thereby. A metallic tube, both ends of which are supported, is positively charged and rapidly rotated about the axis thereof. More than one grindstone are pressed with a constant pressure against the external surface of the metallic tube from opposite directions or radial directions having the rotation axis as the center of rotation. Negative pole electrodes are disposed so as to sandwich the grindstones along a circular direction to perform electrolytic integrated polishing by supplying electrolyte to the external surface of the metallic tube.