US 12,287,592 B2
Image forming method and image forming system
Kazumi Oura, Sagamihara (JP); Hiroshi Nagasawa, Hino (JP); Masaharu Matsubara, Hachioji (JP); Koji Shibata, Hachioji (JP); Akihiko Itami, Hino (JP); Makoto Nomiya, Tokyo (JP); and Natsuki Ito, Hachioji (JP)
Assigned to KONICA MINOLTA, INC., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Konica Minolta, Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Feb. 29, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/591,850.
Claims priority of application No. 2023-032678 (JP), filed on Mar. 3, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0302769 A1, Sep. 12, 2024
Int. Cl. G03G 15/16 (2006.01); C04B 35/47 (2006.01); G03G 9/08 (2006.01); G03G 21/00 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 15/1605 (2013.01) [C04B 35/47 (2013.01); G03G 9/0819 (2013.01); G03G 21/0005 (2013.01); G03G 2215/0861 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image forming method comprising:
developing, with an electrostatic charge image developing toner, a latent image formed on a photoreceptor in which a photosensitive layer is formed on a support containing aluminum as a main component;
transferring a toner image on the photoreceptor onto a transfer target; and
rubbing and removing the electrostatic charge image developing toner remaining on the photoreceptor after the transferring, wherein
the support contains silicon in a range of more than 0.6% by mass and 12.6% by mass or less,
a shape factor of toner particles included in the electrostatic charge image developing toner is in a range of 0.800 to 0.970, and
a content of the toner particles having a particle diameter of 2 μm or less is in a range of 5% by number to 30% by number.