Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Developing device and image forming apparatus provided therewith
- Patent Title (中): 显影装置和图像形成装置
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Application No.: US14180793Application Date: 2014-02-14
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Publication No.: US09063468B2Publication Date: 2015-06-23
- Inventor: Minoru Wada , Takahisa Nakaue , Tamotsu Shimizu , Ikuo Makie , Kenichi Tamaki , Takefumi Yotsutsuji , Shizuka Okada
- Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
- Current Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear LLP
- Priority: JP2013-028871 20130218
- Main IPC: G03G15/08
- IPC: G03G15/08 ; G03G15/09

Abstract:
A developing device includes: a housing, a refill developer storage part, a developing roller, a developer conveyance path, a developer receiving port, a conveyance member, and a magnetic member. The developing roller is driven into rotation in the developing housing and carries a toner on a circumferential surface thereof. The toner is conveyed inside the first conveyance path and the second conveyance path of the developing housing in a circulating manner. A first stirring screw is disposed on the first conveyance path and conveys the toner in a first direction. Downstream of the toner refill port, a magnet is arranged. The magnetic member forms a magnetic brush from a top panel of the developing housing towards the first stirring screw. A refill toner flowed-in through the toner refill port is so conveyed as to fall below the magnetic brush whereby the refill toner is favorably stirred with a surrounding toner.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140233985A1 DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPRATUS PROVIDED THEREWITH Public/Granted day:2014-08-21
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