JPS63278063A - Continuous production of photosensitive drum - Google Patents

Continuous production of photosensitive drum

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Publication number
JPS63278063A
JPS63278063A JP11167087A JP11167087A JPS63278063A JP S63278063 A JPS63278063 A JP S63278063A JP 11167087 A JP11167087 A JP 11167087A JP 11167087 A JP11167087 A JP 11167087A JP S63278063 A JPS63278063 A JP S63278063A
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Prior art keywords
photoreceptor drum
photoreceptor
hole
pipe
tube
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Inventor
Tadashi Asanuma
正 浅沼
Junko Takeda
武田 淳子
Yoshiko Tokura
十倉 由子
Takeshi Miyasaka
宮坂 猛
Seiji Kitamura
北村 清治
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Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals Inc
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    • GPHYSICS
    • G03PHOTOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY
    • G03GELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; MAGNETOGRAPHY
    • G03G5/00Recording members for original recording by exposure, e.g. to light, to heat, to electrons; Manufacture thereof; Selection of materials therefor
    • G03G5/02Charge-receiving layers
    • G03G5/04Photoconductive layers; Charge-generation layers or charge-transporting layers; Additives therefor; Binders therefor
    • G03G5/05Organic bonding materials; Methods for coating a substrate with a photoconductive layer; Inert supplements for use in photoconductive layers
    • G03G5/0525Coating methods

Abstract

PURPOSE:To enable formation of a uniform photosensitive layer by providing a circular truncated cone-shape partition ring, the smaller hole of which is parallel with the base slightly larger than the outside diameter of the stock pipe of a photosensitive drum, to a dipping vessel coaxially to the stock pipe of the photosensitive drum so as to cover the top and bottom of a coating surface. CONSTITUTION:A photosensitive coating liquid 5 is put into the dipping vessel 2 which has a trough-hole of the diameter slightly larger than the outside diameter of the stock pipe 1 of the cylindrical photosensitive drum 1 in the bottom. The stock pipe 1 is passed through the through-hole in the bottom of the dipping vessel and while the pipe is relatively moved perpendicularly upward, a photosensitive coating layer is formed thereon and the photosensitive is thus continuously produced. The circular truncated cone-shaped partition ring 4 which is slightly larger in the diameter of the through-hole in the bottom than the outside diameter of the pipe 1 is provided coaxially to the pipe 1 so as to cover the top and bottom of the coating liquid surface. The height of the coating liquid surface in the partition ring is adjusted according to the moving speed of the pipe 1, by which the thickness of the coated film is uniformly and continuously adjusted. The photosensitive drum having the photosensitive layer of a uniform thickness is thereby easily and continuously produced.

Description

【発明の詳細な説明】 〔産業上の利用分野〕 本発明は、感光体ドラムの連続的製造方法に関する、詳
しくは、連続的に素管に均一な感光体塗層を有する感光
体ドラムを製造する方法に関する。
Detailed Description of the Invention [Industrial Field of Application] The present invention relates to a method for continuously manufacturing a photoreceptor drum, and more particularly, to a method for continuously manufacturing a photoreceptor drum having a uniform photoreceptor coating layer on a blank tube. Regarding how to.

〔従来の技術〕[Conventional technology]

従来、感光体ドラムは、感光体層の基板となる素管を最
終の感光体ドラムの形状と同じ長さの短管としたのち、
その表面の平滑度やドラムの真直度等の精度を高いもの
とする加工を行った後にその上に感光体層を設けること
により製造されていた。
Conventionally, photoreceptor drums have been manufactured by making the raw tube that serves as the substrate for the photoreceptor layer into a short tube with the same length as the final photoreceptor drum shape.
The drum was manufactured by processing the drum to improve its surface smoothness and the straightness of the drum, and then providing a photoreceptor layer thereon.

一方、感光体材料としては安価でしかも安全な有機感光
体材料の進歩が目覚ましく、有機感光体を必要に応じ適
当なバインダーとともに溶解或いは分散した塗液を素管
上に塗布するだけで優れた性能の感光体ドラムを作るこ
とが可能となっている。
On the other hand, as photoreceptor materials, there has been remarkable progress in inexpensive and safe organic photoreceptor materials, and excellent performance can be achieved simply by applying a coating liquid in which the organic photoreceptor is dissolved or dispersed with an appropriate binder as needed onto the tube. It is now possible to make photoreceptor drums of

また、感光体ドラム用素管として充分な表面の平滑度、
真直度等を有する長い(実質的に無限の長亦を有する。
In addition, the surface smoothness is sufficient for the raw tube for photoreceptor drums.
Long with straightness, etc. (has virtually infinite length.

)樹脂製の素管が得られるようになっている(例えば、
特開昭59−178235号公報)。
) It is now possible to obtain resin tubes (for example,
(Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 178235/1983).

この樹脂製の素管は樹脂そのものをカーボン等を混練す
ることで導電性とすることが可能であり、上記を機感光
体材料と組み合わせることで安価に感光体ドラムを製造
することが期待される。
This resin tube can be made conductive by kneading the resin itself with carbon, etc., and it is expected that by combining the above with photoreceptor materials, it will be possible to manufacture photoreceptor drums at low cost. .

〔発明が解決しようとする問題点〕[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

しかしながら、単に比較的長い素管を用いて塗液を塗布
するのでは塗布の装置が大型化し、しかも操作が難しく
なるだけであり、工業的に実施してもあまり効果が得ら
れないという問題がある。
However, simply applying the coating liquid using a relatively long raw tube increases the size of the coating equipment and makes it difficult to operate, so there is a problem that even if it is implemented industrially, it is not very effective. be.

また、素管の製造と同時に塗布しようとすると、通常行
われる浸漬法では、素管の引き上げ速度によって膜厚が
定まる為、素管の生産速度が変化すると感光体層の厚み
も変化するという問題がある。
In addition, if coating is attempted at the same time as the production of the raw tube, there is a problem that the thickness of the photoreceptor layer will change as the production speed of the raw tube changes, as the film thickness is determined by the pulling speed of the raw tube in the commonly used dipping method. There is.

膜厚を制御する方法として表面張力を利用する方法が知
られている(特開昭61−20044号公報)が、この
方法では連続的に塗布する際には適用できないという問
題がある。
A method using surface tension is known as a method for controlling the film thickness (Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 61-20044), but there is a problem that this method cannot be applied when coating continuously.

(問題点を解決するための手段〕 本発明者らは、上記問題点を解決する方法につき鋭意検
討した結果、特定の構造の浸漬槽を用いることで均一の
感光体層を形成しうろことを見出し、本発明を完成した
(Means for Solving the Problems) As a result of intensive study on methods for solving the above problems, the inventors of the present invention have found that a uniform photoreceptor layer can be formed by using a dipping tank with a specific structure. The present invention has been completed.

即ち、本発明は底部に円筒状の感光体ドラム素管の外径
よりも僅かに大きい径の貫通孔を有する浸漬槽の内部に
感光体重液を入れ、感光体ドラム素管を浸漬槽底部の貫
通孔を通して相対的に鉛直上方に移動させながら感光体
塗層を形成して連続的に感光体ドラムを製造する方法に
おいて、浸漬槽に上部開口径が感光体ドラム素管よりも
やや大きく、底部貫通孔の径が感光体ドラム素管よりも
僅かに大きな円錐台状をした仕切環を感光体ドラム素管
と同軸にしかも塗液面の上下にわたるように設け、感光
体ドラム素管の移動速度に応じて該仕切環中の塗液面の
高さを調節して、塗膜の厚みを均一かつ連続的に調節す
ることを特徴とする感光体ドラムを連続的に製造する方
法である。
That is, in the present invention, a photoreceptor heavy liquid is placed inside an immersion tank having a through hole at the bottom with a diameter slightly larger than the outer diameter of the cylindrical photoreceptor drum material tube, and the photoreceptor drum material tube is placed at the bottom of the immersion tank. In a method of continuously manufacturing a photoreceptor drum by forming a photoreceptor coating layer while moving it relatively vertically upward through a through hole, the dipping tank has an upper opening diameter slightly larger than the photoreceptor drum base tube, and a bottom part. A truncated cone-shaped partition ring with a through hole slightly larger in diameter than the photoreceptor drum tube is provided coaxially with the photoreceptor drum tube and extending above and below the coating liquid surface, thereby controlling the moving speed of the photoreceptor drum tube. This is a method for continuously manufacturing a photoreceptor drum, characterized in that the height of the coating liquid surface in the partition ring is adjusted according to the thickness of the coating film, thereby uniformly and continuously adjusting the thickness of the coating film.

本発明において、浸漬槽と感光体ドラム素管との関係、
即ち底部に円筒状の感光体ドラム素管の外径よりもわず
かに大径の貫通孔を有する浸漬槽の内部に感光体重液を
入れ、感光体ドラム素管を浸漬槽底部の貫通孔を通して
相対的に鉛直上方に移動することによって感光体塗液を
塗布するという点では従来公知の所謂デツプコート法と
1!領する。
In the present invention, the relationship between the immersion tank and the photoreceptor drum tube,
That is, the photoreceptor heavy liquid is placed inside an immersion tank having a through hole at the bottom with a diameter slightly larger than the outer diameter of the cylindrical photoreceptor drum material tube, and the photoreceptor drum material tube is passed through the through hole at the bottom of the immersion tank and placed relative to the immersion tank. It is different from the conventionally known so-called dip coating method in that the photoconductor coating liquid is applied by moving vertically upward! take over.

本発明において重要なのは、該浸漬槽に小さい方の穴が
感光体ドラム素管の外径よりもやや大きい底辺に対して
平行な円錐台状の仕切環を感光体ドラム素管と同軸にし
かも塗液面の上下にわたるように設ける点にある。
What is important in the present invention is that a truncated conical partition ring, the smaller hole of which is parallel to the base and whose smaller hole is slightly larger than the outer diameter of the photoreceptor drum material tube, is installed coaxially with the photoreceptor drum material tube and coated in the dipping bath. The point is that it is installed above and below the liquid level.

なお、ここで用いる仕切環は、第2図のa、bに示すよ
うな形状のものであり、小さい方の穴の内径が、感光体
ドラム用素管の外径よりやや大きく、例えば、0.2〜
0.5−程度太き(、大きい方の穴の内径が4〜1〇−
程度大きいものであり、その高さはlO〜1010Os
程度であり、厚さは0.01〜l閣程度のものを用いる
のが一般的である。
The partition ring used here has a shape as shown in a and b in FIG. .2~
About 0.5mm thick (the inner diameter of the larger hole is 4 to 10mm)
The height is 10~1010Os
Generally, a thickness of about 0.01 to 1 mm is used.

上述の仕切環を上下することで第1図の6で示す感光体
塗液液面における感光体ドラム素管と仕切環との隙間が
変わりそれにより感光体ドラム素管の浸漬槽に対する相
対的な移動速度の変化によって生ずる塗膜の厚みの変化
を補償することができる。
By moving the partition ring up and down, the gap between the photoreceptor drum tube and the partition ring at the surface of the photoreceptor coating liquid shown by 6 in FIG. Changes in coating thickness caused by changes in travel speed can be compensated for.

本発明は好ましくは先端部に平滑部を有するスクリュー
を有する押し出し成形機を用いて連続的、に熱硬化性樹
脂を成形し、その成形物をそのまま素管として用い、こ
の上に連続的に感光体を塗布すれば良い。
The present invention preferably involves continuously molding a thermosetting resin using an extrusion molding machine equipped with a screw having a smooth portion at the tip, using the molded product as it is as a raw tube, and continuously exposing the resin to light. Just apply it on your body.

この際、成形物を表面の平滑度とか、真直度とかと言っ
た感光体ドラム用の素管として重要な精度を有するもの
とするためには例えば、スクリューの平滑部において押
し出した後、自己形状を保持できる程度にまで賦形硬化
すること、そのため熱硬化性樹脂の種類に応じ押し出し
機での温度を設定することなどが重要である。
At this time, in order to ensure that the molded product has surface smoothness and straightness, which are important as a raw tube for photoreceptor drums, for example, after extruding it on the smooth part of the screw, the self-shaping Therefore, it is important to shape and cure the thermosetting resin to a level that maintains the thermosetting resin, and to set the temperature in the extruder depending on the type of thermosetting resin.

ここで熱硬化性樹脂としては、フェノール樹脂、メラミ
ン樹脂、尿素樹脂、不飽和ポリエステル樹脂、エポキシ
樹脂、シリコン樹脂、アリル樹脂、キシレン樹脂、アニ
リン樹脂およびポリエチレン、ポリプロピレン樹脂、ポ
リスチレン樹脂、ポリ塩化ビニル樹脂等の熱可塑性樹脂
に架橋剤を加えたもの等が例示され、特にフェノール樹
脂、メラミン樹脂が好適に使用される。
Examples of thermosetting resins include phenolic resin, melamine resin, urea resin, unsaturated polyester resin, epoxy resin, silicone resin, allyl resin, xylene resin, aniline resin, and polyethylene, polypropylene resin, polystyrene resin, and polyvinyl chloride resin. Examples include those obtained by adding a crosslinking agent to a thermoplastic resin such as, among others, phenol resin and melamine resin are particularly preferably used.

またこれらのものは素管の表面抵抗が10”Ω1以下、
特に10’Ω1以下であることが望ましく、そうするた
めカーボンをその種類にもよる力(全成形物中に3〜3
0wt%分散することが必要である。
In addition, the surface resistance of these tubes is 10"Ω1 or less,
In particular, it is desirable that the resistance be less than 10'Ω1, and in order to do so, the force applied to the carbon depends on the type of carbon (3 to 3
It is necessary to disperse 0 wt%.

以下に本発明の方法を図面を用いて更に詳しく説明する
The method of the present invention will be explained in more detail below using the drawings.

第1図は本発明の方法を実施するに好適な装置の1例の
概念図である。1は感光体ドラム素管を示し、2は浸漬
槽、3は感光体塗液が漏れないように素管と浸漬槽の間
に入れられる例えばO−リングのようなものである。4
は本発明において重要な仕切環であり、詳細を第2図に
示す、aは断面図、bは斜視図である。5は感光体塗液
を示す。
FIG. 1 is a conceptual diagram of an example of an apparatus suitable for carrying out the method of the present invention. Reference numeral 1 indicates a photoreceptor drum tube, 2 an immersion bath, and 3 an O-ring or the like inserted between the tube and the immersion bath to prevent the photoreceptor coating liquid from leaking. 4
2 is an important partition ring in the present invention, and its details are shown in FIG. 2, in which a is a cross-sectional view and b is a perspective view. 5 indicates a photoreceptor coating liquid.

第3図に押し出し成形機と組み合わせた時の1例を示す
、7は押し出し成形機であり、2は浸漬槽、4は仕切環
を示す、この図では仕切環は第1図とは逆に設けである
が、第1図の方向の方が広い範囲で制御できる。
Figure 3 shows an example when combined with an extrusion molding machine. 7 is the extrusion molding machine, 2 is a dipping tank, and 4 is a partition ring. In this figure, the partition ring is opposite to that in Fig. 1. However, the direction shown in FIG. 1 allows control over a wider range.

〔実施例〕〔Example〕

外径60閣で長さ1000mの素管を用いて第1図の装
置で厚みが制御できることを確かめた。
Using a raw pipe with an outer diameter of 60 mm and a length of 1000 m, we confirmed that the thickness could be controlled using the device shown in Figure 1.

浸漬槽は広い部分の内径が120閤、狭い部分が62閣
であり、素管との隙間は0−リングで漏れを防止した。
The wide part of the dipping tank has an inner diameter of 120 mm and the narrow part has an inner diameter of 62 mm, and the gap between it and the raw pipe is O-ring to prevent leakage.

この装置で塗液として10wt%のポリエステル溶液を
用い、引き上げ速度を60醜/sinと50鵬/ m 
l nの2条件で塗布したところ、塗膜の厚さはそれぞ
れ4μ−と3μ−であり、ばらついてたが、この条件で
下端の穴の内径が60.3閣および上端の穴の内径が6
5閣であり、高さが40閣である仕切環を用い、塗液上
面での仕切環と素管との間隙をそれぞれ3論と0.5−
に変更したところ、塗膜の厚さはいずれも同じ4μ−で
あった。
In this device, a 10wt% polyester solution was used as the coating liquid, and the pulling speed was set to 60/sin and 50/m.
When applied under two conditions, the thickness of the coating film was 4 μ- and 3 μ-, respectively, and varied, but under these conditions, the inner diameter of the hole at the bottom was 60.3 mm, and the inner diameter of the hole at the top was 60.3 mm. 6
Using a partition ring with a height of 5 cm and a height of 40 cm, the gap between the partition ring and the base pipe on the top surface of the coating liquid was set to 3 and 0.5, respectively.
When the coating was changed to , the thickness of the coating film was the same in both cases, 4 μ-.

〔発明の効果〕〔Effect of the invention〕

本発明を実施することにより、感光体ドラムの感光体層
が均一な厚みのものが容易に連続的に製造でき、工業的
に極めて価値がある。
By carrying out the present invention, a photoreceptor layer of a photoreceptor drum having a uniform thickness can be easily and continuously manufactured, which is extremely valuable industrially.

【図面の簡単な説明】[Brief explanation of drawings]

第1図は本発明の方法を実施するに好適の装置の1例を
示す概念図であり、第2図は仕切環の1例を示す断面お
よび斜視面であり、第3図は押し出し成形機と併用した
ときの1例の概念図である。
FIG. 1 is a conceptual diagram showing an example of an apparatus suitable for carrying out the method of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a cross section and perspective view showing an example of a partition ring, and FIG. 3 is an extrusion molding machine. It is a conceptual diagram of an example when used together with.

Claims (1)

【特許請求の範囲】 1、底部に円筒状の感光体ドラム素管の外径よりも僅か
に大きい径の貫通孔を有する浸漬槽の内部に感光体塗液
を入れ、感光体ドラム素管を浸漬槽底部の貫通孔を通し
て相対的に鉛直上方に移動させながら感光体塗層を形成
して連続的に感光体ドラムを製造する方法において、浸
漬槽に上部開口径が感光体ドラム素管よりもやや大きく
、底部貫通孔の径が感光体ドラム素管よりも僅かに大き
な円錐台状をした仕切環を感光体ドラム素管と同軸にし
かも塗液面の上下にわたるように設け、感光体ドラム素
管の移動速度に応じて該仕切環中の塗液面の高さを調節
して、塗膜の厚みを均一かつ連続的に調節することを特
徴とする感光体ドラムを連続的に製造する方法。 2、感光体ドラム素管を先端部に平滑部を有するスクリ
ューを有する押し出し成形機を用いて連続的に製造し、
引きつづき感光体塗液を連続的に塗布する特許請求の範
囲第1項記載の感光体ドラムを連続的に製造する方法。
[Claims] 1. Pour the photoreceptor coating liquid into an immersion tank having a through hole at the bottom with a diameter slightly larger than the outer diameter of the cylindrical photoreceptor drum material tube, In a method of continuously manufacturing a photoreceptor drum by forming a photoreceptor coating layer while moving it relatively vertically upward through a through hole at the bottom of an immersion tank, the upper opening diameter of the immersion tank is larger than that of the photoreceptor drum base tube. A somewhat larger truncated conical partition ring with a diameter of the bottom through-hole slightly larger than that of the photoreceptor drum element tube is provided coaxially with the photoreceptor drum element tube and extending above and below the coating surface of the photoreceptor drum element. A method for continuously manufacturing a photoreceptor drum, characterized in that the thickness of the coating film is uniformly and continuously adjusted by adjusting the height of the coating liquid surface in the partition ring according to the moving speed of the tube. . 2. Continuously manufacture photoreceptor drum tubes using an extrusion molding machine equipped with a screw having a smooth portion at the tip,
A method for continuously manufacturing a photoreceptor drum according to claim 1, wherein a photoreceptor coating liquid is continuously applied.
JP11167087A 1987-05-09 1987-05-09 Continuous production method of photoreceptor drum Expired - Lifetime JPH0823698B2 (en)

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Cited By (1)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
JPH01118140A (en) * 1987-10-30 1989-05-10 Sharp Corp Device for manufacturing electrophotographic sensitive body

Cited By (2)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
JPH01118140A (en) * 1987-10-30 1989-05-10 Sharp Corp Device for manufacturing electrophotographic sensitive body
JPH0545951B2 (en) * 1987-10-30 1993-07-12 Sharp Kk

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