US4087168A
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Charging system for electrostatic reproduction machine
Assignee: Xerox Corp
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Filing: 1976-01-19
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Granted: 1978-05-02
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Expires: 1996-01-19
Abstract
Abstract A xerographic system, particularly color, is disclosed. To offset the side effects of the relatively high bias potentials applied to the magnetic brush developer roll or rolls and the tendency thereof to create fields adverse to edge and fringe development, a field sensitive corona generating device is provided to raise potentials of the image background areas after exposure but before development.
Inventors
- 👤 Lawrence J. Fraser
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
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Last Synchronized
2026-10-27 06:26
CPC Classifications
G; G03; G03G; G03G15/00; G03G15/04; G03G15/045; G03G15/01; G03G15/0105; G03G15/011; Y; Y10; Y10S; Y10S430/00; Y10S430/001; Y10S430/102
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 4
Claim 1
Independent Claim
154 words
In an electrostatic reproduction machine, the combination of a photoconductive member, first charging means to place a uniform electrostatic charge of one polarity on the surface of said photoconductive member in preparation for imaging, exposure means to expose said photoconductive member without changing said one polarity to an original being reproduced and thereby selectively discharge said photoconductive member in accordance with the original being reproduced to form a latent electrostatic image in said one polarity of the original on said photoconductive member, and, second charging means for subjecting said latent electrostatic image formed on said photoconductive member to a charge of said one polarity to restore to said latent electrostatic image at least a part of the charge originally provided on said photoconductive member by said first charging means on the exposed areas of said latent electrostatic image without forming a second image whereby to reduce the charge differential between exposed and non-exposed areas.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
154 words
In an electrostatic reproduction machine, the combination of a photoconductive member, first charging means to place a uniform electrostatic charge of one polarity on the surface of said photoconductive member in preparation for imaging, exposure means to expose said photoconductive member without changing said one polarity to an original being reproduced and thereby selectively discharge said photoconductive member in accordance with the original being reproduced to form a latent electrostatic image in said one polarity of the original on said photoconductive member, and, second charging means for subjecting said latent electrostatic image formed on said photoconductive member to a charge of said one polarity to restore to said latent electrostatic image at least a part of the charge originally provided on said photoconductive member by said first charging means on the exposed areas of said latent electrostatic image without forming a second image whereby to reduce the charge differential between exposed and non-exposed areas.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
139 words
In an electrostatic reproduction machine, the combination of a photoconductive member, first charging means to place an electrostatic charge of one polarity on the surface of said photoconductive member in preparation for imaging, exposure means to expose said charged photoconductive member without changing said one polarity to an original being reproduced and thereby form a latent electrostatic image in said one polarity of the original on said photoconductive member, developing means to develop said latent electrostatic image, and second charging means to selectively charge exposed areas of said image without forming a second image, the charge provided by said second charging means being of the same polarity as the charge provided by said first charging means whereby the charge differential between exposed and unexposed portions of said image is reduced before development of said image by said developing means.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
139 words
In an electrostatic reproduction machine, the combination of a photoconductive member, first charging means to place an electrostatic charge of one polarity on the surface of said photoconductive member in preparation for imaging, exposure means to expose said charged photoconductive member without changing said one polarity to an original being reproduced and thereby form a latent electrostatic image in said one polarity of the original on said photoconductive member, developing means to develop said latent electrostatic image, and second charging means to selectively charge exposed areas of said image without forming a second image, the charge provided by said second charging means being of the same polarity as the charge provided by said first charging means whereby the charge differential between exposed and unexposed portions of said image is reduced before development of said image by said developing means.
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