This invention relates to an improvement in an electrophotographic recording material comprising an electrically conductive support, optionally an insulating intermediate layer, and a photoconductive layer composed of at least one layer comprising charge carrier-producing and charge transporting compounds, a binder, and conventional additives, the improvement that the recording material comprises a 75 to 250 μm thick support, and, in the form of a photoconductor web, is sufficiently flexible that it is not prone to the formation of hairline cracks when repeatedly conducted over rollers of at least 12 mm diameter, said binder being a cellulose nitrate with a viscosity of 400±25 cPoises at concentrations between about 4 and 12 percent in a 5 percent aqueous acetone solution, according to DIN 53 179 (standard type 4-12).

Electrophotographic recording material

In the information recording an reproducing method and apparatus according to the present invention, a piece of picture image information is recorded as an analog quantity or a digital quantity an information carrying medium in a planar manner at a high density, charge potential is read for outputting electric signals to correspond to the recorded picture image information and then the outputted signals are printed out by means of various display unit or output device, with high quality and high resolution as well as ease processing of the information. The information carrying medium provides a long period of storage of information and enables stored picture image information to be repeatedly reproduced with a picture quality according to need. Particularly, it is, according to the present invention, possible to read and output local potential of an information carrying medium with predetermined scanning density at a desired time, and so pictures of high quality may be output as a silver salt photograph is taken and reproduced by optically scanning the film. Thus, the present invention may be applied to a wide field including photographing, copying and printing.

Method for recording and reproducing information, apparatus therefor and recording medium

A transfer mechanism for a full color double transfer electrophotographic print engine. Relatively conductive developer materials having successively increasing triboelectric charge characteristics are used to develop sequential images. Conductive plates displaced away from the transfer station along the direction of travel of the transfer belt are used as one electrode for applying an electrostatic field at each transfer station. A parameter of the transfer mechanism is a bulk resistivity of the transfer belt in the range of 107 to 1010 ohm-centimeters and a surface resistivity for the belt in the range of 107 to 1010 ohms per square. A selectively operable compression roller, compressing paper and transfer belt against a rubberized idling roller at one of the transfer stations increase dwell time in the transfer station. The compression roller automatically falls to a cleaning station where it is rotated by another rotary member to clean it between transfers. The use of conductive developer materials also tends to eliminate halo problems common in color electrophotography.

Transfer system for electrophotographic print engine

An image information device of a construction wherein there are provided a laser oscillator; a modulator capable of modulating a laser beam oscillated from the laser oscillator by an external signal; a photosensitive body consisting essentially of an insulating layer, a photoconductive layer, and an electrically conductive substrate; a principal scanning means such as a polygonal revolving mirror, galvano-mirror, etc. to cause the modulated laser beam to scan the photosensitive body in the principal scanning direction; an optical system to cause the laser beam to focus on the photosensitive body; a position detection means to establish a commencing position of the scanning laser beam on the photosensitive body; means to input an image signal into the modulator in synchronism with the principal scanning means by an output from the position detection means; means to electrically charge the photosensitive body; corona discharge means to impress on the photosensitive body an A.C. corona discharge or a D.C. corona discharge having an opposite polarity to the above-mentioned electric charge simultaneously with, or immediately before, or immediately after, the scanning of the photosensitive body with the laser beam; means to effect overall exposure of the photosensitive body; means to develop an electrostatic latent image formed by the abovementioned means; means to transfer the latent image onto an image transfer material; and means to clean the photosensitive body.

Image information electrostatic recording device

An apparatus for erasing the fog developing in a stimulable phosphor sheet used for a radiation image recording and reproducing system in which a radiation image is once recorded in the stimulable phosphor sheet and then read out and reproduced on a recording material. The apparatus is arranged so that stimulable phosphor sheets are taken up one at a time out of their reservoir and each is loaded into a cassette used for the recording of a radiation image. It comprises a light source for erasing the fog, which is provided between the aperture of the reservoir from which the stimulable phosphor sheets are taken up and the section at which the sheets are loaded into the cassettes.

Noise erasing apparatus for stimulable phosphor sheet

The disclosed photosensitive member comprises a supporting substrate, an electrode, a visible photoconductive layer and a thin layer of an electrically high insulating material which is transmissive to visible light, and is photoconductive in the ultraviolet range. The insulating layer is irradiated with visible light from an object to be reproduced and is simultaneously charged with a predetermined polarity through corona charging to form an electrostatic latent image corresponding to the object on the insulating layer. After the electrostatic image undeveloped or developed, has been transferred to a record medium, the electrostatic image left on the insulating layer is erased by irradiation with ultraviolet radiation.

Yoshizawa Michio

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Electrophotographic apparatus using photosensitive member with electrically high insulating layer