Frictional vibration of a cleaning blade in laser printers

Go Kono, Yoshinori Inagaki, Tsuyoshi Nohara, Minoru Kasama, Toshihiko Sugiura, Hiroshi Yabuno

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Abstract

It is known that chatter vibration of a cleaning blade in laser printers, caused by the friction between the cleaning blade and the photoreceptor, occasionally produces a squeaking noise. This research aims to analyze the dynamics of the cleaning blade, from the viewpoint of mode-coupled vibrations. The dynamics of the cleaning blade are theoretically analyzed using an essential 2DOF link model, with emphasis placed on the contact between the blade and the photoreceptor. The cleaning blade is assumed to always be in contact at one point with a moving floor surface, which is given a displacement σfrom its initial position in the vertical direction. This causes the vertical load N and the frictional force μN to continuously act on the bottom end. By solving the equations governing the motion of the analytical model, five patterns of static equilibrium states are obtained, and the effect of friction on the static states is discussed. It is shown that one of five patterns corresponds to the shape of the cleaning blade, and it is clarified through linear stability analysis that this state becomes dynamically unstable, only when friction is present. This unstable vibration is a bifurcation classified as Hamiltonian-Hopf bifurcation, and confirms the occurence of mode-coupled self-excited vibration with a constant frictional coefficient.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIUTAM Symp. on Dynamics Modeling and Interaction Control in Virtual and Real Environments - Proc. of the IUTAM Symposium on Dynamics Modeling and Interaction Control in Virtual and Real Environments
Pages273-281
Number of pages9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2011
EventIUTAM Symposium on Multibody Dynamics and Interaction Control in Virtual and Real Environments - Budapest, Hungary
Duration: 2010 Jun 72010 Jun 11

Publication series

NameSolid Mechanics and its Applications
Volume30
ISSN (Print)1875-3507

Other

OtherIUTAM Symposium on Multibody Dynamics and Interaction Control in Virtual and Real Environments
Country/TerritoryHungary
CityBudapest
Period10/6/710/6/11

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Civil and Structural Engineering
  • Automotive Engineering
  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Acoustics and Ultrasonics
  • Mechanical Engineering

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