EP0137188B1 - Appareil de développement pour le développement liquide d'images électrostatiques - Google Patents

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EP0137188B1
EP0137188B1 EP84109344A EP84109344A EP0137188B1 EP 0137188 B1 EP0137188 B1 EP 0137188B1 EP 84109344 A EP84109344 A EP 84109344A EP 84109344 A EP84109344 A EP 84109344A EP 0137188 B1 EP0137188 B1 EP 0137188B1
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Erwin Dr. Lind
Helmuth Haberhauer
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    • G03—PHOTOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY
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    • G03G15/10—Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern for developing using a liquid developer
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  • the invention relates to a developing device for liquid development of electrostatic charge images on an image carrier material, with a device for spraying a liquid developer onto the image carrier material to be developed and with a development electrode connected to a DC voltage source.
  • Such a device for developing an electrostatic charge image on an electrophotographic copying material is known from DE-C-25 07 221.
  • This device is equipped with a pair of inlet rollers for applying a toner dispersion with toner particles charged opposite to the polarity of the charge image on the copying material, and also with a distributor roller for uniformly distributing the toner dispersion on the charge image.
  • the spray tube for spraying the toner dispersion is mounted above the distributor roller and has rows of nozzles which are arranged symmetrically to the vertical center line of the spray tube in the tube shell.
  • the voltage applied to the distributor roller is at least as large as the charge level at the image areas of a white area of the charge image and not greater than the charge level at the image areas of a full tone area of the charge image.
  • the voltage applied to the distributor roller is preferably in the range between 20 and 350 volts.
  • the distributor roller works as a counter electrode or developing electrode and the toner deposited on the surface of the distributor roller is rinsed off by spraying with the toner dispersion and reaches a collecting trough in order to be reused.
  • DE-A-21 38 254 describes an electrophotographic reversal developing device with one or more developing electrode rollers, which carry a bias with the polarity of the charge image to be developed, and is equipped with devices for supplying toner dispersion to the developing electrode rollers.
  • the developing electrode rollers are not in direct contact with the copying material and the toner particles of the toner dispersion used have the same polarity as the charge image.
  • Selektrodenrollen g of the DEVELOPMEN the liquid developer is plotted directly, which then passes from the development electrode rollers on the recording medium.
  • Conductive rollers, which support the underside of the recording medium, are arranged below the recording medium. These conductive rolls are cleaned by flexible brushes.
  • DE-A-23 32 253 discloses a developing device for electrophotographic copying materials which are passed in a development zone under application rollers which are wetted from above with a toner dispersion. In this way, a film of the toner dispersion is applied to the copying material. At the end of the development zone there is a pair of squeeze rollers that squeeze away the excess toner dispersion from the surface of the copy material.
  • a developing device which, as an application element for the liquid toner on a recording material carrying charge images, has a roller or an endless belt which can be put into circulation.
  • a device for reducing the amount of liquid carried along by the toner deposited on the application element is arranged at a point on the movement path of the application element between emerging from the developer bath and application to the recording material.
  • This device can be a corona discharge electrode. Excess or residual toner on the application element is removed after development by means of a scraper, a rotating brush or other devices.
  • the known developing devices have the disadvantage in common that the toner supply does not take place uniformly under all conditions and that, in particular, the reproduction of full-tone areas which must be homogeneously covered with toner, the basic reproduction of non-image areas and in particular the reproduction of rastered images on the recording materials with correct tonal values leaves.
  • counter or developing electrodes in the form of rollers, rollers or sheets are used to reproduce homogeneous concrete full surfaces, the shape of which is adapted to the particular recording medium to be developed.
  • the residual charges present in the non-image areas are also developed, so that the developed images are not groundless. Therefore it is necessary to apply a counter voltage to the developing electrodes in order to compensate for the charges on the photoconductor layer. This is the only way to develop completely groundless images. In this case, however, the application of a voltage to the developing electrode causes the toner to be deposited on it, as a result of which its effectiveness deteriorates very quickly.
  • the object of the invention is to provide a development device which enables high-quality liquid development of electrostatic charge images with constant image quality, without the cleaning of the development electrode used for development being necessary.
  • the developing electrode consists of an electrically conductive tape, which, depending on the amount of image carrier material developed, is unwound from a supply roll and wound onto a take-up roll, and in that the distance of the band-shaped developing electrode from the surface of the image carrier material is adjustable by means of at least one guide roller over which the band-shaped developing electrode is guided.
  • the developing electrode is connected to a controllable direct voltage source and the one pole of the direct voltage source is connected to the base over which the image carrier material is moved.
  • the take-up reel is connected to a controllable direct voltage source.
  • the band-shaped developing electrode or the band electrode is guided with the help of one or more rollers.
  • the band-shaped development electrode is guided both in front of the spray tube for the liquid developer and after the spray tube via two adjustable guide rollers. It is expedient to guide the band-shaped development electrode over a deflection roller, which is located above the spray tube. Depending on the number of guide rollers used, a more or less large electrode area is created, so that an adaptation to the properties of the liquid developer used and to process parameters, such as development speed, is easily possible.
  • the distance between the developing electrode and the surface of the image carrier can be adjusted with great accuracy by adjusting the guide rollers.
  • Thin metal foils for example made of aluminum, are suitable as the strip material for the developing electrode, which are bright rolled, roughened on the surface or coated with a high resistance.
  • Metal-coated or metal-clad plastic films or papers can also be used.
  • the advantage is achieved that halftone dots are reproduced with constant tonal value, full-tone areas are developed homogeneously and non-image areas are rendered fundamentally, since a developing electrode is always available for the compensation of the residual charge, on the surface of which faces the image carrier, still no toner has deposited.
  • a developing device 1 according to the invention is shown schematically in FIG. 1.
  • This development device 1 has a support 12 lying horizontally in one plane, on which the image carrier material 2 to be developed, for example a printing plate, rests or is transported along.
  • the image carrier material 2 or copying material consists of an electrically conductive carrier layer with an electrophotographic recording layer applied thereon, which is electrostatically homogeneously charged in a known manner using a corona charging device.
  • the charged recording layer is then exposed imagewise in contact with an original, episcopically or diascopically from an original.
  • the latent electrostatic charge image thus generated is developed in the developing device 1 with liquid toner, which is toner particles dispersed in a liquid.
  • a pair of inlet rollers 9 and a pair of transport rollers 11 are arranged.
  • the image carrier material 2 to be developed is introduced with the recording layer carrying the electrostatic charge image upward over the base 12 into the nip between the inlet roller pair 9, gripped by these rollers and transported in the direction of arrow A through the developing device 1.
  • a spray tube 3 which contains rows of nozzles in a known manner, each on the Pipe circumference are arranged at an angle between 5 up to 150 ° to the perpendicular. This angular arrangement ensures a particularly uniform distribution of the liquid film on the recording layer of the image carrier material 2.
  • a slot nozzle or other application device can also be provided.
  • a supply roll 7 for a band-shaped developing electrode 6 is arranged above the inlet roller pair 9.
  • the band-shaped developing electrode 6 is an electrically conductive band which is unwound from the supply roll 7 and is guided via a guide roll to a take-up roll 8 which is approximately at the same height as the supply roll 7 above the base 12.
  • the distance of the band-shaped developing electrode 6 from the surface of the image carrier material 2 is set by means of the guide roller 10, the shaft of which can be adjusted within a range of 1 to 3 mm in a manner not shown.
  • the band-shaped developing electrode 6 is advantageously wound up from the supply roll 7 onto the winding roll 8 at the same speed as the transport speed of the image carrier material 2.
  • This mode of operation of the developing device 1 is only intended if particularly high demands are made on the development and the reproduction of rastered images. If the requirements for the image quality are somewhat lower, it is sufficient if the band-shaped developing electrode stands still during the transport of the image carrier material 2 and several printing plates, for example five to ten pieces, are developed with a section of predetermined length of the developing electrode 6 before the developing electrode 6 is around this distance of predetermined length is transported. With only five to ten development processes with the same band section of the developing electrode 6, the contamination of the electrodes by deposited toner is kept within very narrow limits. Usually, the developing electrode 6 is transported in the direction of arrow B from the supply roll 7 to the take-up roll 8. Of course, it is also possible to transport the developing electrode 6 in the opposite direction, i.e. from the roll 8, which is then provided as a supply roll, to the roll 7, which then functions as a take-up roll.
  • the distance between the band-shaped developing electrode 6 and the light-sensitive surface is 0.5 mm to 2 mm, although a distance between 1 mm and 1.5 mm is preferred.
  • the thickness of the band-shaped developing electrode 6 is 20 to 100 ⁇ m, in particular 50 ⁇ m, and up to 300 m of the developing electrode 6 can be wound onto the supply roll 7.
  • a metal foil, in particular an aluminum foil, is generally provided as the strip material for the developing electrode 6.
  • the surface of the developing electrode can be roughened, bright rolled or coated with a high resistance.
  • polystyrene or mixed polymers can be provided, which largely prevent voltage breakdown of the developing electrode 6.
  • the one pole of the controllable direct voltage source 4 is connected to the side of the developing electrode 6 facing the image carrier material 2 via a sliding contact (not shown).
  • a DC voltage of up to about 200 volts is applied to the developing electrode 6.
  • An air nozzle or 13 for drying the image carrier material 2 and the developer electrode 6 is arranged at a distance of 1 to 3 mm from the surface of the image carrier material 2 to be developed or the side of the developing electrode 6 which faces the image carrier material 2.
  • metal foils instead of metal foils, metal-coated or metal-clad plastic foils can also be used for the developing electrode 6.
  • a metal-coated or metal-coated paper web is also suitable as the strip material of the developing electrode.
  • a plurality of guide rollers 14 to 17 are provided, over which the band-shaped developing electrode 6 is guided.
  • the same reference numerals are used for the components of this development device 1 which correspond to corresponding elements of the development device according to FIG. 1. The description of these components is not repeated.
  • the band-shaped developing electrode 6 is moved from the supply roll 7 in the direction of arrow 8 via the two guide rolls 14 and 15, further via a deflection roll 18 and the two guide rolls 16 and 17 to the take-up roll 8.
  • the guide rollers 14 to 17 are mounted at a distance of approximately 0.5 mm to 2 mm from the surface of the image carrier material 2. The distance between the guide rollers can be set within the specified range.
  • the deflection roller 18 is arranged further away from the image carrier material 2 above the spray tube 3.
  • one pole of the controllable direct voltage source 4 is connected to the roller core of the take-up roll 8, while the other pole is connected to the base 12, over which the image carrier material 2 is transported.
  • This electrode area which is larger in comparison to the embodiment according to FIG. 1, enables a very precise adaptation to the properties of the liquid developer used and to process parameters, such as the development speed, ie the transport speed of the image carrier material 2 and the band-shaped development electrode 6, easily possible.
  • the invention i.a. realized a development electrode that is completely free of toner precipitation and thus enables a reproduction of consistent quality for all developed image carrier materials.
  • there is no need to clean the developing electrode during operation since it can either be thrown away after use or can be cleaned in a single operation if reused.
  • the cost of such a development electrode is low in view of the materials used on the market for this purpose.

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1. Dispositif de développement servant a développer, au moyen d'un liquide, des images de charge électrostatiques sur un matériau formant support d'images, et comportant un dispositif pour pulvériser un révélateur liquide sur le matériau formant support d'images, devant être développé, et une électrode de développement connectée à une source de tension continue, caractérisé en ce que l'électrode de développement (6) est constituée par une bande électriquement conductrice qui est déroulée d'un rouleau débiteur (7), à chaque fois en fonction de la quantité du matériau formant support d'images développé, et est enroulée sur un rouleau récepteur (8), et que la distance entre l'électrode de développement (6) en forme de bande et la surface du matériau formant support d'images (2) peut être réglée à l'aide d'au moins un galet de guidage (10), sur lequel l'électrode de développement (6) en forme de bande circule.
2. Dispositif de développement selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que l'électrode de développement (6) est reliée à une source réglable de tension continue (4) et qu'un pôle de la source de tension continue (4) est connecté au support (12), sur lequel le matériau formant support d'images (2) est déplacé vers l'avant.
3. Dispositif de développement selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que le rouleau récepteur (8) est relié à une source de tension continue réglable (4).
4. Dispositif de développement selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que l'électrode de développement (6) en forme de bande passe sur deux galets réglables de guidage (14, 15: 16, 17), aussi bien en amont du tube de pulvérisation (3) du révélateur liquide qu'en aval de ce tube (3).
5. Dispositif de développement selon la revendication 4, caractérisé en ce que l'électrode de développement (6) en forme de bande circule sur un galet de renvoi (18) qui est situé au-dessus du tube de pulvérisation (3).
6. Dispositif de développement selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que des buses d'air (13) respectivement (5) sont disposées à une distance de 1 à 3 mm de l'électrode de développement (6) et du matériau formant support d'images (2), de manière à sécher ces éléments.
7. Dispositif de développement selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que le matériau en forme de bande de l'électrode de développement (6) est une feuille métallique.
8. Dispositif de développement selon la revendication 7, caractérisé en ce que la surface de l'électrode de développement (6) est rendue rugueuse, possède un fini brillant ou est recouverte par un revêtement hautement résistif.
9. Dispositif de développement selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que le matériau en forme de bande de l'électrode de développement (6) est une feuille en matière plastique recouverte par un métal déposé par évaporation ou bien munie d'un doublage métallique.
10. Dispositif de développement selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que le matériau en forme de bande de l'électrode de développement (6) est une bande de papier recouverte par un métal déposé par évaporation ou bien munie d'un doublage métallique.
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