Abstract: A blade cleaning device for removing toners remaining on a surface of a photoreceptor comprises a blade and a blade holding frame. The blade holding frame is rotatable in substantially parallel with a plane containing a center of the photoreceptor and a contact line of the blade with the photoreceptor.

Abstract: A cleaning system for an electrostatic copying apparatus has a cleaning roller in pressure contact with a toner supporting member for removing residual toner therefrom. The cleaning roller is impressed with a bias voltage of polarity opposite to the electric charge held by the residual toner. The cleaning roller comprises an axle, a conductive elastic layer around the axle, and a thin porous film formed as an outer most layer over the elastic layer. The thin film is preferably made of polytetrafluorethylene and is a porous and soft film. The cleaning system also includes a discharging electrode arranged before the cleaning roller, and a scraper for removing toner adhering to the cleaning roller.

Abstract: A cleaning device in which toner remaining on an image reproducing support through an electrostatic reproducing process is cleaned by a fur brush and then the toner having adhered to the fur brush is recovered by an electrically biased roller, the fur brush having a brush core formed of a conductive material and the brush core being grounded or biased with the polarity opposite to that of bias voltage applied to the roller. The fur brush is formed as a conductive brush and grounded through a non-linear resistance element. The fur brush is formed of a semiconductive material.

Abstract: An electrostatic recording apparatus comprising an ion modulator, a driving circuit for transforming a first image signal into a second image signal and for applying said second image signal to the ion modulator, a member for forming electrostatic latent image, and a photon coupled isolator. A voltage of the second image signal is higher than a voltage of the first image signal. The first image signal is supplied to the driving circuit through the photon coupled isolator. The ion modulator is a multilayered ion modulator comprising a layer of insulating material, a continuous layer of conductive material and a segmented layer of conductive material on the other side of said insulating layer. Each segment of the segmented conductive layer is insulatively isolated from each other segment. The multilayered ion modulator has at least one of row of apertures formed therethrough. A segment of the segmented conduction layer is formed around each aperture.

Abstract: A cleaning apparatus for a toner image retaining member of an electrophotographic copying machine includes an elastic cleaning blade for removing residual toner from the surface of the toner image retaining member, the elastic cleaning blade having two opposite ends, one end having a protuberance with a cleaning edge. A holder is arranged along a given axis for supporting the opposite end of the elastic cleaning blade and for disposing the cleaning edge in resilient contact against the surface of the toner image retaining member. The cleaning edge of the elastic cleaning blade is formed by a ridge line of the protuberance which is kept in resilient contact against the surface of the toner image retaining member by the holder. The angle of intersection .phi.

Abstract: A copying machine comprising an image signal generating unit including a solid image pickup element for converting an optical image into an electric signal; an ion generating source; and an electrostatic image forming unit including an ion control electrode. The ion control electrode has a control electrode and a common electrode arranged to face each other through an insulating layer and formed with fine openings arranged in a row or in plural adjacent rows. At least one of the electrodes being divided into such a plurality of blocks as has its one or plural openings electrically insulated at a close spacing across the aforementioned arranged openings and as are wired to receive electric signals from the aforementioned image signal generating unit, the common electrode being operative to control the flow of ions, which are directed toward a charge holder, if necessary, together with the control electrode in response to a bias voltage applied.

Abstract: A device for guiding a recording paper, which comprises a guide member pivoted to a fixed portion of the device to guide the recording paper to a transfer position, the guide member being urged to rotate in one direction. A reference surface for determining the position of end portion of the guide member in the direction of being fed the paper is formed in the fixed portion of the device. The reference surface has a radius of curvature which is slightly greater than the outer diameter of a photosensitive drum and a center of curvature which is in agreement with the center of said photosensitive drum.

Abstract: A recording apparatus in which the coordinates of a portion of an image to be extracted or erased are determined, a scanning position is detected, and an image signal is switched for blocking or allowing the passage of image signals when said predetermined coordinates coincide with said detected position. An extrction means for extracting a portion of a document image or, an erasure device for erasing a portion of a document image, a designating device for designating a portion to be extracted or erased, and a numerical device for introducing the coordinates of the portion to be extracted or erased are provided.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a toner retaining member such as a photosensitive drum, a toner collector, a cleaning device for cleaning toner off of the toner retaining member, and a toner guide member for guiding toner away from the toner retaining member. The guide member has a plurality of spaced apart front contact end portions in contact with the toner retaining member for guiding toner which is cleaned from the toner retaining member to the toner collector, at least the front contact end portions of the toner guide member which are in contact with the toner retaining member being in a comb-teeth shape. Preferably, at least the front contact end portions of the toner guide member are fibers.

Abstract: A corona generating apparatus for use in an electrophotographic copying machine is disclosed, which includes an elongated shield of a conductive net member defining an open ended chamber and a corona discharge electrode mounted in the chamber. The conductive net may be backed by a conventional conductive shield plate.

Abstract: A process for forming electrostatic latent images to be developed by a color toner.

Abstract: Improved method and apparatus for forming an electrostatic latent image on a recording medium by the simultaneous projection of an ion current and exposure to image light, in which a control grid for controlling the ion current has a plurality of layers, including a photoconductive layer, a conductive layer, and an insulating layer. A first bias voltage is applied to the conductive layer to form an electric field which directs the ion current toward the recording medium, and a second bias voltage, higher than the first bias voltage, forms a second electric field in the control grid for controlling passage of the ions. The recording medium is adapted to absorb the image light thereon.

Abstract: A process for forming electrostatic latent images to be developed by a color toner. The process comprises steps of electrically charging a photoconductive layer of an ion-beam controlling screen, exposing the photoconductive layer electrically charged to a first image information, disposing a recording medium having a photoconductive layer so as to oppose to the exposed photoconductive layer, and applying ions to the photoconductive layer of the recording medium through the screen to form an electrostatic latent image having a background of charged potential. The photoconductive layer of the recording medium in which the electrostatic latent image is formed is exposed to a second image information to produce a corrected electrostatic latent image.