Abstract: Disclosed are an adhesive agent composition which has high chemical resistance and solvent resistance and is curable at around room temperature, an inkjet head which has good durability and jetting performance even in the case of using solvent ink, and a manufacturing method of the inkjet head. For these characteristics, the adhesive agent composition contains, as an activator, an imidazole derivative in which an alkyl group or a substituted alkyl group is substituted at the 1-postion or at the 1- and 2-positions, and as a base, a compound having three or more epoxy groups.

Abstract: Disclosed are an adhesive agent composition which has high chemical resistance and solvent resistance and is curable at around room temperature, an inkjet head which has good durability and jetting performance even in the case of using solvent ink, and a manufacturing method of the inkjet head. For these characteristics, the adhesive agent composition contains, as an activator, an imidazole derivative in which an alkyl group or a substituted alkyl group is substituted at the 1-postion or at the 1- and 2-positions, and as a base, a compound having three or more epoxy groups.

Abstract: Disclosed is an adhesive agent which is curable and has flexibility at low temperature, and further has resistant to solvent type ink. The adhesive agent includes a base and an activator, wherein the base includes at least any one of: bisphenol F epoxy compound; bisphenol F epoxy compound mixed with an epoxy compound having three or more epoxy groups; and bisphenol A epoxy compound mixed with an epoxy compound having three or more epoxy groups, wherein the activator includes: 100 parts by mass of polyamide composed of a condensation reaction product of C36 unsaturated fatty acid dimer and polyamine; and 5 to 200 parts by mass of alicyclic polyamine, and wherein the base is mixed with the activator with a ratio of 10 to 200 parts by mass of the activator with respect to 100 parts by mass of the base.

Abstract: Disclosed is an adhesive agent which is curable and has flexibility at low temperature, and further has resistant to solvent type ink. The adhesive agent includes a base and an activator, wherein the base includes at least any one of: bisphenol F epoxy compound; bisphenol F epoxy compound mixed with an epoxy compound having three or more epoxy groups; and bisphenol A epoxy compound mixed with an epoxy compound having three or more epoxy groups, wherein the activator includes: 100 parts by mass of polyamide composed of a condensation reaction product of C36 unsaturated fatty acid dimer and polyamine; and 5 to 200 parts by mass of alicyclic polyamine, and wherein the base is mixed with the activator with a ratio of 10 to 200 parts by mass of the activator with respect to 100 parts by mass of the base.

Abstract: Disclosed is an adhesive agent which is curable and has flexibility at low temperature, and further has resistant to solvent type ink. The adhesive agent includes a base and an activator, wherein the base includes at least any one of: bisphenol F epoxy compound; bisphenol F epoxy compound mixed with an epoxy compound having three or more epoxy groups; and bisphenol A epoxy compound mixed with an epoxy compound having three or more epoxy groups, wherein the activator includes: 100 parts by mass of polyamide composed of a condensation reaction product of C36 unsaturated fatty acid dimer and polyamine; and 5 to 200 parts by mass of alicyclic polyamine, and wherein the base is mixed with the activator with a ratio of 10 to 200 parts by mass of the activator with respect to 100 parts by mass of the base.

Abstract: Disclosed are an adhesive agent composition which has high chemical resistance and solvent resistance and is curable at around room temperature, an inkjet head which has good durability and jetting performance even in the case of using solvent ink, and a manufacturing method of the inkjet head. For these characteristics, the adhesive agent composition contains, as an activator, an imidazole derivative in which an alkyl group or a substituted alkyl group is substituted at the 1-postion or at the 1- and 2-positions, and as a base, a compound having three or more epoxy groups.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an inkjet head, which jets, by shear deformation of a partition wall, an ink in an ink flow path. The method includes the steps of: forming a metal electrode on a surface of the partition wall; coating an adhesive agent on the cover board; superposing the cover board onto an upper end surface of the partition wall under a condition wherein the hardness of the adhesive agent is not less than 105 dyne/cm2, so that the ink flow path is formed with the partition wall and the cover plate; and pressing the channel board and the cover board under the hardness condition wherein the hardness of the adhesive agent is not less than 105 dyne/cm2 and not greater than 109 dyne/cm2.

Abstract: An ink-jet head, comprises an ink chamber in which ink is stored; a piezoelectric element to jet the ink from the ink chamber; an electrode to apply an electric voltage onto the piezoelectric element; and a layer provided on the electrode by an electrodeposition method. The layer is subjected to a process to change a surface energy.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of an inkjet head, which jets, by shear deformation of a partition wall, an ink in an ink flow path, having the steps of: forming a metal electrode on a surface of the partition wall; coating an adhesive agent on the cover board; superposing the cover board onto an upper end surface of the partition wall under the state satisfying the following condition 1, so that the ink flow path is formed with the partition wall and the cover plate; and pressing the channel board and the cover board under the state satisfying the following condition 1 all the time, and experiencing the following condition 2.

Abstract: A method of manufacture an ink jet head in which an ink is jetted from a nozzle hole by applying an electric voltage to an electrode so as to deform ink chambers divided by a partition wall. The method includes the steps of providing plural piezoelectric base plates having polarization side by side on a first non-piezoelectric plate, forming plural grooves for the ink chambers on the piezoelectric base plates and at connecting portions where each edge of the plural piezoelectric base plates provided side by side comes to face other edge; and mounting a second non-piezoelectric base plate on the plural piezoelectric base plates as so to cover the plural grooves so that the ink chambers divided by the partition wall are formed.

Abstract: An ink-jet head, comprises an ink chamber in which ink is stored; a piezoelectric element to jet the ink from the ink chamber; an electrode to apply an electric voltage onto the piezoelectric element; and a layer provided on the electrode by an electrodeposition method. The layer is subjected to a process to change a surface energy.

Abstract: An ink jet head to jet ink from a nozzle hole by applying an electric voltage to an electrode so as to deform a shape of a space forming an ink chamber, comprises two piezoelectric base plates given polarization; two non-piezoelectric base plates, wherein the ink chamber is formed by being enclosed by the two piezoelectric base plates facing each other and the two non-piezoelectric base plates facing each other; each of the two piezoelectric base plates comprising at least two lamination layers made of a piezoelectric material, wherein the two lamination layers are laminated such that the laminated surface is substantially parallel to the non-piezoelectric base plates and polarizing directions of the two lamination layers are opposite to each other; and electrodes provided on surfaces of the piezoelectric base plates and the non-piezoelectric base plates, wherein the surfaces face the ink chamber.

Abstract: An ink-jet recording head employed in an ink-jet recording apparatus is disclosed. A part of the channel is composed of resin material which comprises a base resin and a highly cationic resin attached on the surface of the base resin through reaction, the resulting surface being reacted with a hydrophilic organic material. A production method of the head, an ink-jet recording apparatus and production method of the ink-jet recording apparatus are also disclosed.

Abstract: A development apparatus for developing a latent image formed on an image forming body with a developer so as to obtain a toner image. A developer conveyance unit conveys the developer, including a toner, to a development zone, between the developer conveyance unit and the image forming body, from an upstream side of the development zone in a conveyance direction to a downstream side thereof. A plate member having an electrode portion is positioned at the upstream side of the development zone, wherein a downstream end portion of the plate member is positioned in contact with the development zone. A power supply unit applies a first voltage, including a DC component and an AC component, to the developer conveyance unit so that an electric field is generated at the development zone. The power supply unit applies a second voltage, including a DC component, to the electrode portion of the plate member, and the plate member controls the electric field with the second voltage. The development apparatus satisfies: V.

Abstract: A developing apparatus for developing an electrostatic latent image on an image retainer with two-component developer has a rotatable sleeve having a closest position on which the sleeve comes closest to the image retainer, a first magnet fixed in the sleeve in close proximity to the closest position, a second magnet disposed upstream of the first magnet in relation to a rotation direction of the sleeve and a control electrode member. The control electrode member includes an insulating plate member arranged either to be brought into contact with or to be positioned adjacent to the sleeve and a line-shaped electrode member fixed to the plate member.

Abstract: A non-contact type of developing device for use in an image forming apparatus having an image forming body, includes a developer conveying body facing the image forming body in which a magnet body having a plurality of magnet poles are attached therein, to convey two-component developer in the form of a developer layer onto a developing area and a control electrode provided at the developing area or upstream of the developing area. The control electrode has an electrically insulating member which is in contact with or close to the developing layer, and an electrode to which a voltage is applicable is attached to the insulating member. The following condition is satisfied: ##EQU1## where D.sub.T represents a number of toner layers on the assumption that the toner particles passing through the developing area are filled most densely, D.sub.WS represents a conveying amount (mg/cm.sup.2) of the developer layer at the developing area on the developer conveying body, T.sub.

Abstract: A developing apparatus includes a control electrode assembly provided in an upstream portion of a developing area of a developing sleeve that is opposed to an image retainer. The control electrode assembly is provided with an insulating member so that it can be located close to the developing sleeve or it can be contacted with the developing sleeve. An end portion of the control electrode is protruded onto a downstream side with respect to an end portion of the insulating member so that a toner cloud can be generated immediately before the developing area.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus uses a contact-type charger to charge a photoreceptor. The D.C. current supplied to the charger is measured while the output value of the A.C. voltage is changed within a predetermined range, and the output value of the A.C. voltage is set in accordance with the measurement result.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus such as an electrophotographic copier and an electrophotographic printer. The image forming apparatus includes: a photoreceptor for forming a toner image on its surface; a charger for charging the surface with a bias voltage, including a DC component and a AC component, through a magnetic brush member which is in contact with the surface; a driving unit for moving both of the surface of the photoreceptor and the magnetic brush member in synchronism; a laser unit for imagewisely exposing a predetermined image area of the surface, which is charged by the charger, so that a latent image is formed on the surface; and a discharge lamp for exposing the surface with light so that the surface is discharged.

Abstract: A device for charging a photoreceptor on which a toner image is formed, comprises a rotatable sleeve, at least two magnets disposed in the sleeve so as to attract magnetic particles in a form of magnetic brush, and a electric power source to provide the photoreceptor with an electric charge through the magnetic brush. One of the magnets is disposed upstream of the closest point between the photoreceptor and the sleeve, and the other magnet is disposed downstream of the closest point.