G03G21/1814

Toner for developing electrostatic charge image, electrostatic charge image developer, method for producing toner for developing electrostatic charge image, toner cartridge, process cartridge, image forming apparatus, and image forming method

A toner for developing an electrostatic charge image contains toner particles containing at least one binder resin, a release agent, and a coloring agent, and a cross-sectional image of the toner particles meets requirements (1) and (2): requirement (1), an average of ten or more domains, per toner particle, of the release agent have an area of 0.5% or more and 5.0% or less of the area of the toner particle; requirement (2), in a Voronoi tessellation generated from the centroids of the domains of the coloring agent, the mean area of the Voronoi cells is 0.020 μm.sup.2 or more and 0.060 μm.sup.2 or less, and the standard deviation of the areas of the Voronoi cells is 0.010 μm.sup.2 or less.

PHOTOSENSITIVE MEMBER CARTRIDGE AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE

A photosensitive member cartridge detachably mountable to a main assembly of an image forming apparatus for forming an image, includes a frame; a photosensitive drum on which and which is provided in the frame; a transfer member for transferring an image formed on the drum onto the sheet; a mounting portion for detachably mounting a developing cartridge including a developer carrying member onto the drum and a memory for storing information; a first electrical contact provided on the frame and electrically connectable with a main assembly electrical contact provided in the main assembly when the cartridge is mounted to the main assembly; and a second electrical contact provided on the frame for electrically connecting the memory and the first electrical contact portion with each other when the developing cartridge is mounted to the mounting portion.

Image forming apparatus including drum cartridge and development cartridge

One of two walls apart from each other in a first direction has an opening. A drum cartridge includes a photosensitive drum rotatable about a drum axis extending in the first direction when the drum cartridge is attached to a housing. The drum cartridge is movable through the opening between a first position at which an entirety of the drum cartridge is located inside the housing and a second position at which at least part of the drum cartridge is located outside the housing. The development cartridge includes a development roller rotatable about an axis extending in the first direction. The development cartridge is unattachable to and undetachable from the drum cartridge in a state where the drum cartridge is located at the first position. The development cartridge is attachable to and detachable from the drum cartridge in a state where the drum cartridge is located at the second position.

Channel state information measurements for license assisted access

Systems and methods relating to accurate Channel State Information (CSI) measurements for a License Assisted Secondary Cell (LA SCell) are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a wireless device enabled to operate in a cellular communications network according to a carrier aggregation scheme using both a licensed frequency band and an unlicensed frequency band operates to determine whether a Channel State Information Reference Symbol (CSI-RS) transmission from a LA SCell of the wireless device is present in a subframe, where the LA SCell is in an unlicensed frequency band. The wireless device further operates to process a CSI-RS measurement for the LA SCell for the subframe upon determining that a CSI-RS transmission from the LA SCell is present in the subframe and refrain from processing a CSI-RS measurement for the LA SCell for the subframe upon determining that a CSI-RS transmission from the LA SCell is not present in the subframe.

Electrophotographic apparatus and process cartridge

The electrophotographic apparatus and process cartridge comprising an electrophotographic photosensitive member, a cleaning blade, and developing unit containing a toner, wherein the cleaning blade comprising a support member and an elastic member whose portion is abutting a surface of the electrophotographic photosensitive member; the elastic member has an elastic modulus of 15 to 470 MPa with coefficient of variation for the elastic modulus being not more than 7.0%, and the absolute value of a difference between Martens hardness values is not more than 0.30 N/mm.sup.2 as measured under prescribed conditions; the toner contains a toner particle and an external additive whose a number-average primary particle diameter is from 5 to 25 nm, when X1 is a coverage ratio of the toner particle by the external additive and X2 is a theoretical coverage ratio, X1 is 50 to 85 area %, and X1/X2≥−0.0042×X1+0.60 is satisfied.

ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTOSENSITIVE MEMBER, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS
20230101167 · 2023-03-30 ·

Provided is an electrophotographic photosensitive member including a support, an undercoat layer, a charge-generating layer, and a charge-transporting layer in the stated order, wherein with regard to an S.sub.0, an S.sub.1, an S.sub.2, an S.sub.3, and an S.sub.4 determined by a specific procedure (A), a ratio S.sub.1/S.sub.0 is 0.34 or less, and one of the S.sub.2, the S.sub.3, or the S.sub.4 is a positive value, and the other two thereof are negative values, or two thereof are positive values, and the other one thereof is a negative value.

ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE DEVELOPING TONER, ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE DEVELOPER, TONER CARTRIDGE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD

An electrostatic image developing toner includes toner particles containing a binder resin and a release agent. In sections of the toner particles in which the sections of the toner particles have an area St in total and, among sections of domains of the release agent, sections of domains having long diameters of 10 nm or more and 500 nm or less have a total area Sa and sections of domains having long diameters of 1500 nm or more and 3000 nm or less have a total area Sb, an area fraction Sa/St is 2% or more and an area fraction Sb/St is 20% or more.

PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
20230031856 · 2023-02-02 ·

A process cartridge detachably mountable to a main assembly of an image forming apparatus, the process cartridge includes a photosensitive drum unit including a photosensitive drum, and a first and second positioning portions Configured to position the photosensitive drum unit relative to the main assembly; and a developing unit connected with the photosensitive drum unit, the developing unit including a developing roller, a storing means having a contact surface electrically connectable with a main assembly contact of the main assembly to communicate with the main assembly. As seen in an axial direction of the photosensitive drum, a first line segment connecting the first positioning portion and the second positioning portion with each other and a first linear line passing through the contact surface and perpendicular to the contact surface crosses with each other.

PROCESSING CARTRIDGE
20220350291 · 2022-11-03 ·

A processing cartridge, detachably installed in an electronic image forming device that includes a first pushing element and a second pushing element. The processing cartridge includes a developing roller and a first housing supporting the developing roller; a photo-sensitive drum and a second housing supporting the photo-sensitive drum; a first force receiving element, configured to be abutted against the second pushing element to separate the developing roller from the photo-sensitive drum; and a second force receiving element, configured to be abutted against the first pushing element for enabling the second force receiving element to push the first force receiving element to rotate about an axis. A rotation axis of the first force receiving portion is substantially perpendicular to a direction in which the processing cartridge is installed into or taken out of the electronic image forming device.

Electrophotographic photosensitive member, process cartridge and electrophotographic image forming apparatus

An electrophotographic photosensitive member having a support and a photosensitive layer on the support, wherein the electrophotographic photosensitive member comprises a surface layer comprising a polymerization product of a composition containing polyrotaxane and a charge transporting substance, and the polymerization product including a bond between the polyrotaxane and the charge transporting substance.