Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Developing device with developing roller and thickness regulating member and image forming apparatus provided with same
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Application No.: US16240896Application Date: 2019-01-07
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Publication No.: US10481522B2Publication Date: 2019-11-19
- Inventor: Tamotsu Shimizu , Yasuhiro Tauchi , Akifumi Yamaguchi
- Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Applicant Address: JP
- Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Current Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP
- Agent Gerald E. Hespos; Michael J. Porco; Matthew T. Hespos
- Priority: JP2018-003218 20180112
- Main IPC: G03G15/08
- IPC: G03G15/08 ; G03G15/09

Abstract:
A developing device includes a developing roller and a layer thickness regulating member. The developing roller includes a fixed magnet and a sleeve. The layer thickness regulating member includes a regulating body portion and an upstream regulating portion, and the upstream regulating portion includes an upstream magnetic member and a nonmagnetic member. Developer is hardly strongly jammed in an area between a first magnetic field concentration point of the regulating body portion and a second magnetic field concentration point of the upstream regulating portion. Thus, even if the sleeve of the developing roller is rotated at a higher speed than before, the developer is stably regulated by the layer thickness regulating member.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190219945A1 DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH SAME Public/Granted day:2019-07-18
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