Abstract: A rotary developing device for color image forming equipment has a plurality of developing units around a common rotary shaft and rotates the developing units about the common shaft to bring any one of them to a developing position. A drive connecting and disconnecting device in the form of a clutch is provided integrally with each developing unit and sets up and interrupts drive transmission from a drive source to only one of the developing units.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus has a plurality of developing containers for developing an electrostatic latent image of a latent image carrier by toners having colors different from each other except for black; a black developing container for color for storing black toner for color and operated when the developed image on the latent image carrier every color is overlapped and transferred onto a transfer material to provide a color image; a black developing container for a monochromatic image for storing black toner for a monochromatic image and operated when the monochromatic image is obtained; and a device for arranging the respective developing containers such that the developing containers are opposite to the latent image carrier. The other image forming apparatuses are also shown.

Abstract: A device for use in electrostatographic image recording equipment for retaining and transporting a paper sheet, document or similar sheet member. A transporting member is implemented as an endless belt. An AC voltage is applied to the belt to form a charge density pattern on the surface of the belt, while the charge density pattern sets up a non-uniform electric field in close proximity to the surface of the belt. The non-uniform electric field urges the sheet member against the belt and thereby allows it to be surely transported by the belt to a predetermined position without being dislocated.

Abstract: Here is disclosed a disposable diaper having a front area, a crotch area, a back area and a pair of liquid permeable wing areas laterally extending from opposite sides of said back area so that said diaper may be worn by fastening said wing areas to each other, then placing said front area upon these wing areas and fastening said front area to said wing areas.

Abstract: A part of a tube, through which a fluid passes, is cooled by means of an electronic cooling element and a flow rate of the fluid is measured on the basis of a temperature of a surface of the tube cooled. Not only can the flow rate of the liquid flowing through the tube be determined in a noncontacting manner and a very small flow rate of the liquid be determined, but also the tube is cooled so that no bubbles are generated, and thus the measurement of the liquid, which is apt to generate gases, such as low boiling point liquid, is possible. In addition, the measurement is not influenced by the gases dissolved in the liquid and merely the temperature difference resulting from the flow of the fluid, that is, the rise of the temperature of the fluid, is detected to prevent the measurement from being influenced by the installing posture of the flow meter, so that a highly accurate measurement is possible. Consequently, stable and sure controlling flow rate of liquid is possible.

Abstract: A part of a tube, through which a fluid passes, is cooled by means of an electronic cooling element and a flow rate of the fluid is measured on the basis of a temperature of a surface of the tube cooled. Not only can the flow rate of the liquid flowing through the tube be determined in a noncontacting manner and a very small flow rate of the liquid be determined, but also the tube is cooled so that no bubbles are generated, and thus the measurment of the liquid, which is apt to generate gases, such as low boiling point liquid, is possible. In addition, the measurement is not influenced by the gases dissolved in the liquid and merely the temperature difference resulting from the flow of the fluid, that is, the rise of the temperature of the fluid, is detected to prevent the measurement from being influenced by the installing posture of the flow meter, so that a highly accurate measurement is possible. Consequently, stable and sure controlling flow rate of liquid is possible.

Abstract: A color recording apparatus has an electric charge carrier which is circulatingly movable, an electrostatic latent image forming unit for forming a latent image which corresponds to an original image on the carrier, a development unit for developing the latent image; a transfer unit for transferring the developed image formed on the carrier to a record paper in a transfer process, a conveyor for conveying the record paper forward and backward with respect to the transfer unit, and a control unit which repeats control operations for controlling the latent image forming unit to form a latent image on the carrier, for controlling the development unit to develop the latent image, for controlling the conveyor to convey the record paper forward, for controlling the transfer unit to transfer the developed image to the record paper, and for controlling the conveyor to convey the record paper backward at least for one time.

Abstract: A rotary multicolor developing apparatus having a plurality of developing chambers defined in a rotatable developing drum, which neighbors and faces a photoconductive drum, and developing units each being disposed in a respective one of the developing chambers to supply toner of a particular color; the developing units being sequentially transported in a rotational motion to a predetermined developing region so that the toner is transferred from each developing unit to an electrostatic latent image provided on the photoconductive drum, thereby developing the latent image. In each developing unit, there are provided a magnetic brush which is sequentially transported between a toner supply region, the developing region, and a toner recovery region, a toner supply roller for transporting toner which is charged in the toner supply region to the magnetic brush, and a toner recovery roller for collecting in the toner recovery region the toner which remains on the magnetic brush after development.

Abstract: A method for developing an electrostatic latent image includes the steps of preliminarily charging a toner, supplying the preliminarily charged toner to a resilient developing brush held in resilient contact with a latent image carrier while electrically charging the toner in a toner supplying region, transferring the toner on the resilient developing brush to an image developing region, developing the electrostatic latent image formed on the image carrier with the toner by bringing the resilient developing brush into contact with the latent image carrier and the image developing region, transferring the resilient developing brush from the image developing region to a toner recovering region separate from the toner supplying region after the image has been developed, recovering residual toner from the resilient developing brush in the toner recovering region in order to remove toner density irregularities from the resilient developing brush, and thereafter transferring the resilient developing brush to the to

Abstract: A two-component toner is directly supplied to a brush which is cyclically transferred while in resilient contact with a latent image carrier for developing an electrostatic latent image on the latent image carrier. After the image has been developed by the toner, residual toner is directly recovered from the brush for uniformizing the toner density on the brush.