In order to clarify the foundamental process of liquid development of electrophotography and electrostatic printing, the adsorption characteristics of carbon black fine powders dispersed in ligroine on the charged surface were studied, varying some experimental conditions. The sample plate were made by coating the VYHH resin (vinyl chloride, vinyl acetate copolymer) on the glass plate with chromium plated. The surface charge were given by corona discharge and measured by sector type electrometer as surface potential (Voltage).
The quantities of carbon black powder adsorbed were observed by using the optical densitometer. The experimental equipment is shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 2 shows the charge decay characteristics of insulator surface in both air and ligroine only. In the range of carbon black concentration of 0.01-0.1W% under the surface voltage 200V, the adsorption characteristics are shown in Fig. 3-6.
The initial rate of adsorption in Fig. 3-6 increases linearly with the carbon black concentration as shown in Fig. 7. The maximum adsorption in each concentration approaches rapidly to the saturation state, shown in Fig. 8. The charge decay characteristics of carbon black adsorption are shown in Fig. 9 and 10, and the relations between both initial charge decay rate and maximum charge decay and the carbon black concentration are exhibited in Fig. 11 and 12 separately. It was observed that these results correspond to the characteristics of adsorption in Fig. 7 and 8. Fig. 13 shows the linear relation between the initial rate of adsorption and the initial decay rate of charge.
Each adsorption characteristics under the constant carbon black concentration of 0.05W%, varying the surface voltage 0-350V, are shown in Fig. 14-17. It seems that the charge characteristics of the initial rate of adsorption for postive surface voltage are not so simple as in the case of constant voltage, except negative surface voltage in which the linear relation can be found as shown in Fig. 18. The maximum adsorption of carbon black for surface voltage also are not linearly but more complicated as shown in Fig. 19.
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