Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Transport member and developing device including the same
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Application No.: US15730304Application Date: 2017-10-11
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Publication No.: US10234812B2Publication Date: 2019-03-19
- Inventor: Toshiaki Shima , Yohei Ito , Kazuyoshi Ota , Hiroaki Umemoto
- Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
- Applicant Address: JP Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
- Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
- Agency: Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
- Priority: JP2016-211299 20161028
- Main IPC: G03G15/00
- IPC: G03G15/00 ; G03G15/08

Abstract:
A transport member, that transports a developer by rotating in a rotation direction that is predetermined around a rotation axis, includes: a shaft part including the rotation axis; and a blade part spirally provided on an outer peripheral surface of the shaft part, wherein the blade part includes a transport surface that is a surface facing a downstream side in a transport direction of the developer along the rotation axis, and a non-transport surface that is a surface other than the transport surface, and the transport member further includes a fin protruding from the non-transport surface of the blade part, the fin being provided with an interval from the outer peripheral surface of the shaft part.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180120752A1 TRANSPORT MEMBER AND DEVELOPING DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME Public/Granted day:2018-05-03
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