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Xerographic apparatus and process with backside photoconductor imaging
Assignee: International Business Machines Corp
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Filing: 1983-10-31
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Granted: 1986-09-02
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Expires: 2003-10-31
Abstract
Abstract A closed-loop photoconductor belt capable of transmitting light from its inner surface to a photoconductive layer is imaged on the internal surface after charging of the photoconductive layer. A developer transfers toner to the image area on the external surface of the belt, while scavenging residual toner from the belt external surface. The image representing toner is transferred from the external belt surface to a copy medium at a transfer station. A back-lighting erase lamp and biased AC pretransfer corona improve transfer efficiency and suppress background transfer during the transfer operation, respectively.
Inventors
- 👤 Carl A. Queener
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-28 17:39
CPC Classifications
G; G03; G03G; G03G15/00; G03G15/22; G03G15/32; G03G15/326; G03G15/04; G03G15/04036; G03G15/04081; G03G15/06; G03G15/08; G03G15/09; G03G2215/00; G03G2215/04; G03G2215/0497
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 9
Claim 1
Independent Claim
134 words
In an electrophotostatic imaging machine having a photoconductor mounted for movement in a closed loop wherein said photoconductor includes a chargeable photosensitive layer and an image transmitting layer on an inner side of said photosensitive layer, means for electrostatically charging said photoconductor, and means for feeding copy medium past an image transfer station relative to the outer surface of said photoconductor, an improvement comprising: means for imposing an image onto the inner surface of said electrostatically charged photoconductor; means for applying toner to an external surface of said image bearing photoconductor and including means for scavenging toner disassociated with the image from said photoconductor outer surface; and means biasing said toner applying and scaverging means for concurrently depositing toner on imaged areas of said photoconductor and attracting toner from nonimaged areas of said photoconductor.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
134 words
In an electrophotostatic imaging machine having a photoconductor mounted for movement in a closed loop wherein said photoconductor includes a chargeable photosensitive layer and an image transmitting layer on an inner side of said photosensitive layer, means for electrostatically charging said photoconductor, and means for feeding copy medium past an image transfer station relative to the outer surface of said photoconductor, an improvement comprising: means for imposing an image onto the inner surface of said electrostatically charged photoconductor; means for applying toner to an external surface of said image bearing photoconductor and including means for scavenging toner disassociated with the image from said photoconductor outer surface; and means biasing said toner applying and scaverging means for concurrently depositing toner on imaged areas of said photoconductor and attracting toner from nonimaged areas of said photoconductor.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
36 words
An improved machine in accordance with claim 1 which includes photoconductor discharging erase lamp means positioned for directing light on the inner surface of said photoconductor between said toner applying means and said image transfer station.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
129 words
In an electrophotostatic imaging machine having a photoconductor mounted for movement in a closed loop wherein said photoconductor includes a chargeable photosensitive layer and an image transmitting layer on an inner side of said photosensitive layer, means for electrostatically charging said photoconductor, and means for feeding copy medium past an image transfer station relative to the outer surface of said photoconductor, an improvement comprising: means for imposing an image onto the inner surface of said electrostatically charged photoconductor; and toner applying and scavenging means including a plurality of magnetic brush means with at least one of said brush means biased for removing loose toner from said photoconductor and at least one other of said magnetic brush means biased for developing the image defined by selected discharge of said photoconductor.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
129 words
In an electrophotostatic imaging machine having a photoconductor mounted for movement in a closed loop wherein said photoconductor includes a chargeable photosensitive layer and an image transmitting layer on an inner side of said photosensitive layer, means for electrostatically charging said photoconductor, and means for feeding copy medium past an image transfer station relative to the outer surface of said photoconductor, an improvement comprising: means for imposing an image onto the inner surface of said electrostatically charged photoconductor; and toner applying and scavenging means including a plurality of magnetic brush means with at least one of said brush means biased for removing loose toner from said photoconductor and at least one other of said magnetic brush means biased for developing the image defined by selected discharge of said photoconductor.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
28 words
An improved machine in accordance with claim 3 wherein said toner applying and scavenging means includes a plurality of said magnetic brush means biased for removing loose toner.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
41 words
An improved machine in accordance with claim 3 wherein said photoconductor is arranged to initially engage at least one of said toner removal biased magnetic brush means before engagement with at least one of said image developing biased magnetic brush means.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
128 words
In a xerographic machine having a closed-loop belt that has an image transmitting layer on the interior of the loop in underlying relation to an electrostatically chargeable photoconductor layer and with an arrangement for feeding copy medium past an image transfer station on the outer surface of the belt, the method comprising the steps of: charging the photoconductor layer of the belt; directing an image onto the belt inner surface for selectively discharging the photoconductor; scavenging loose toner from the belt exterior surface; applying toner concurrently with said scavenging step to the belt exterior surface at a common station with said scavenging step to develop the image defined by the selective photoconductor discharge; discharging the belt; and transferring the toned image from the belt to a copy medium.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
128 words
In a xerographic machine having a closed-loop belt that has an image transmitting layer on the interior of the loop in underlying relation to an electrostatically chargeable photoconductor layer and with an arrangement for feeding copy medium past an image transfer station on the outer surface of the belt, the method comprising the steps of: charging the photoconductor layer of the belt; directing an image onto the belt inner surface for selectively discharging the photoconductor; scavenging loose toner from the belt exterior surface; applying toner concurrently with said scavenging step to the belt exterior surface at a common station with said scavenging step to develop the image defined by the selective photoconductor discharge; discharging the belt; and transferring the toned image from the belt to a copy medium.
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