Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image bearing member; a development device that includes a developer bearing member in a development position opposite to the image bearing member to develop an electrostatic latent image formed on the image bearing member, the developer bearing member bearing and conveying a developer; a bias applying portion that applies a development bias to the developer bearing member; a recording-material sensing portion that senses a type of a recording material to which a toner image developed by the development device is transferred; and a controller that controls the bias applying portion to apply the development bias that degrades a development characteristic when the recording material has low smoothness, compared to high smoothness, from a sensing result of the recording-material sensing portion.

Abstract: A suction puncture device includes a puncture needle having an outer tube that has an opening edge of a first front end formed in the shape of a blade, and a stopper member that has a second front end disposed within the outer tube at a position separated from the first front end of the outer tube by a predetermined distance. A sample containing portion is formed between the second front end of the stopper member and the first front end of the outer tube. A ventilation passage is formed around the stopper member within the outer tube, a suction unit is connected to a first base end side of the outer tube, and the suction unit is communicated with and connected to the sample containing portion via the ventilation passage.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes first and second image forming portions. The first and second image forming portions forms a toner image. The second image forming portion forms a toner image so that the toner image is superimposed on the toner image formed by the first image forming portion. The second image forming portion includes an image bearing member, a cleaning member that removes transfer residual toner existing on the image bearing member at an abutting position, and a supply unit that supplies abrasive particles or toner to the abutting position. The image forming apparatus includes a controller that controls the amount of toners or abrasive particles, which are supplied by the supply unit, in accordance with the amount of toner used in the first and second image forming portions.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a drum; a developing device, including a developer carrying member for carrying a developer including a non magnetic toner and a magnetic carrier and for conveying the developer to a developing position in which the developer carrying member opposes the drum; a detecting portion for detecting information correlating to a toner charge amount of the developer in the developing device; and a controller capable of executing an operation in a mode, wherein drive of the developer carrying member in a first period in which a non image formation area of the drum corresponding to an internal between a recording material and a subsequent recording material passes through the developing position is stopped or lowered in speed less than that in a second period in which an image area corresponding to the recording material passes through the developing position.

Abstract: In an image forming apparatus including a plurality of image forming portions which respectively has a photosensitive drum, a charging roller, an exposure device, a development device, and a primary transfer roller which transfers a toner image developed to the drum to an intermediate transfer belt, for example, surface potential (On-image Vback) of a part overlapping a toner image to be formed at the image forming portion at the downstream of the belt movement direction from the image forming portion is set to be smaller than surface potential (i.e., Center Vback) of another part among surface potential (i.e., fog removal potential) of a non-image part of the photosensitive drum disposed to the image forming portion.

Abstract: The image projection apparatus projects an image onto a projection surface through a projection optical system including a focus element (104) movable in an optical axis direction. The apparatus includes a shift mechanism that moves the projection optical system in a shift direction including a directional component orthogonal to the optical axis direction so as to move a position of the projected image on the projection surface, a shift position detector that detects a shift position of the projection optical system moved by the shift mechanism, a temperature detector that detects a temperature, and a controller that moves the focus element. The controller moves the focus element depending on the temperature detected by the temperature detector and on the shift position detected by the shift position detector.

Abstract: In the case where image formation is performed by using a part of a plurality of image forming units, an associated image bearing member of a remaining part of the plurality of image forming units is rotated together with an intermediary transfer member or a recording material carrying member while a voltage of a polarity opposite to that of polishing particles is applied to an electric charge imparting member.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus is constituted by a rotatable image bearing member; a charging member for electrically charging the image bearing member in contact with the image bearing member; developing member, containing polishing particles, for collecting toner from the image bearing member and effecting development on the basis of an electrostatic latent image formed on the image bearing member; a transfer member for transferring a toner image formed on the image bearing member onto a transfer material; an auxiliary charging member, located downstream from a transfer portion and upstream from the charging member with respect to a movement direction of the image bearing member, for electrically charging toner remaining on the image bearing member after the transfer by contact with the image bearing member; and control means for performing a discharging mode, for discharging polishing particles from the auxiliary charging member onto the image bearing member on the basis of an image ratio of an image to be for

Abstract: The image projection apparatus includes an image-forming element forming an original image, a projection optical system projecting light from the image-forming element onto a projection surface to form a projected image, an optical shifting part shifting the projection optical system in a first shift range, an image shifting part shifting an image-forming area on the image-forming element in a second shift range, and a controller. In a shift direction in which the projected image is shifted according to an operation of an operating part, the controller causes the optical shifting part to shift the projection optical system in a state where the image-forming area is located closer to a center of the second shift range than an end thereof, and then causes the image shifting part to shift the image-forming area in a state where the projection optical system has been shifted to an end of the first shift range.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus is constituted by a rotatable image bearing member; a charging member for electrically charging the image bearing member in contact with the image bearing member; developing member, containing polishing particles, for collecting toner from the image bearing member and effecting development on the basis of an electrostatic latent image formed on the image bearing member; a transfer member for transferring a toner image formed on the image bearing member onto a transfer material; an auxiliary charging member, located downstream from a transfer portion and upstream from the charging member with respect to a movement direction of the image bearing member, for electrically charging toner remaining on the image bearing member after the transfer by contact with the image bearing member; and control means for performing a discharging mode, for discharging polishing particles from the auxiliary charging member onto the image bearing member on the basis of an image ratio of an image to be for

Abstract: An image forming apparatus is constituted by a rotatable image bearing member; a charging member for electrically charging the image bearing member in contact with the image bearing member; developing member, containing polishing particles, for collecting toner from the image bearing member and effecting development on the basis of an electrostatic latent image formed on the image bearing member; a transfer member for transferring a toner image formed on the image bearing member onto a transfer material; an auxiliary charging member, located downstream from a transfer portion and upstream from the charging member with respect to a movement direction of the image bearing member, for electrically charging toner remaining on the image bearing member after the transfer by contact with the image bearing member; and control means for performing a discharging mode, for discharging polishing particles from the auxiliary charging member onto the image bearing member on the basis of an image ratio of an image to be for

Abstract: An apparatus is configured to charge an image bearing member in a charging section, develop an electrostatic image formed on the image bearing member, and transfer a toner image formed on the image bearing member to a transfer medium in a transfer section. The apparatus includes a charging auxiliary apparatus for changing a charge amount of toner on the image bearing member. The charging auxiliary apparatus includes a charging auxiliary member contacting with the image bearing member downstream of the transfer section and upstream of the charging section and a voltage applying device to apply a voltage to the charging auxiliary member.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes first and second image forming units each including a charging device and a development device using a developer including a mixture of toner and carrier, a transfer device for serially transferring toner images onto a transfer medium, a replenishment device for replenishing a replenishing developer including a mixture of toner and carrier to each development device, and a discharge device for discharging the developer. The second image forming unit is disposed on a downstream side of the first image forming unit in a transfer medium travel direction. Each development device of the first and second image forming units is configured to recover a residual transfer toner remaining on each image bearing member. A weight percent of carrier in the replenishing developer to be replenished to the development device of the second image forming unit is larger than that of the first image forming unit.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes first and second image forming portions. The first and second image forming portions forms a toner image. The second image forming portion forms a toner image so that the toner image is superimposed on the toner image formed by the first image forming portion. The second image forming portion includes an image bearing member, a cleaning member that removes transfer residual toner existing on the image bearing member at an abutting position, and a supply unit that supplies abrasive particles or toner to the abutting position. The image forming apparatus includes a controller that controls the amount of toners or abrasive particles, which are supplied by the supply unit, in accordance with the amount of toner used in the first and second image forming portions.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus including an exposure device, a development device, an image density detection device, a supply device for supplying a toner to the development device, a cleaning device for cleaning the surface of an image bearing member, a driving torque detection device for detecting a driving torque of the image bearing member, and a controller which drives the image bearing member while providing a predetermined electric potential difference between a region charged in the image bearing member and a developer support in case of non-image formation conducts a driving torque detecting operation with respect to the image bearing member by means of the driving torque detection device, and changes a reference value in response to the value of the driving torque detected.

Abstract: A projection type display includes an optical system that includes a focus lens and is configured to project an image, a driver configured to move the focus lens along an optical axis, a phase difference sensor configured to receive light of the image that has been projected, and a controller configured to calculate a phase difference based on an output of the phase difference sensor, to calculate an in-focus position based on the phase difference that has been calculated, and to move the focus lens via the driver to the in-focus position for a focus control of the optical system, wherein the controller provides the focus control while a current position of the focus lens is located within an allowable range that is previously set in a movable range over which the focus lens can move along the optical axis.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a first and second developing devices for developing an electrostatic images with different developers a toner content detecting device for detecting a toner content in the developer in the first developing device, an image density detecting device for detecting an image density of a reference toner image formed using the first and second developing devices, and a controller for operating the apparatus selectively in a first and second modes. An image forming operation is carried out using only the first developing device in the first mode. An image forming operation is carried out using the first and second developing devices and the in the second mode.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a developing unit for developing a latent image on an image bearing member by using a developer containing toner and a carrier; and a detecting unit for detecting a density of a detection reference toner image, wherein detection results obtained by the detecting unit are employed to control a toner replenishment operation for the developing unit, and wherein, when the detection results obtained by the detecting unit is equal to or smaller than a predetermined value, a residual toner amount determination mode is performed.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member on which an electrostatic image is formed; a developing device for developing the electrostatic image formed on the image bearing member with a developer including toner and a carrier; a supplying apparatus for supplying into the developing device a supply developer including toner by rotating a feeding screw; inclination detecting means for detecting an inclination of the feeding screw; and control means for controlling rotation of the feeding screw on the basis of a result of detection of the inclination detecting means.

Abstract: An apparatus is configured to charge an image bearing member in a charging section, develop an electrostatic image formed on the image bearing member, and transfer a toner image formed on the image bearing member to a transfer medium in a transfer section. The apparatus includes a charging auxiliary apparatus for changing a charge amount of toner on the image bearing member. The charging auxiliary apparatus includes a charging auxiliary member contacting with the image bearing member downstream of the transfer section and upstream of the charging section and a voltage applying device to apply a voltage to the charging auxiliary member.