Two types of experimental systems have been developed for observing the movement of charged toner particles shifted by the traveling wave on the sheet of periodical conductors driven by two kinds of generators: three-phase sinusoidal waves and four-phase rectangular ones.We have obtained the following major results:(1) The transported distance of charged toner particles can be controlled by the step-by-step operation of four phase rectangular waves.(2) The relationship between the speed of transportation of charged toner particles and the driving frequency can be described as the difference between two experimental systems mentioned above.(3) Movement of charged toner particles driven by the traveling wave can be observed in detail by the video camera.
Keiji Taniguchi, Yoichi Yamamoto, Jun Mizukami, Yutaka Nakano, Sadakazu Watanabe, Takanori Sakai, Syuichi Morikuni, Hiroaki Yamamoto, "Characteristics of Experimental Transportation Systems for Charged Toner Particles" in Proc. IS&T Int'l Conf. on Digital Printing Technologies (NIP14), 1998, pp 473 - 476, https://doi.org/10.2352/ISSN.2169-4451.1998.14.1.art00035_2