Invention Grant
US09104136B2 Developer conveyance device, development device, and image forming apparatus
有权
显影剂输送装置,显影装置和图像形成装置
- Patent Title: Developer conveyance device, development device, and image forming apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 显影剂输送装置,显影装置和图像形成装置
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Application No.: US13944684Application Date: 2013-07-17
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Publication No.: US09104136B2Publication Date: 2015-08-11
- Inventor: Kuniaki Nakano , Eiji Nimura , Koji Kuramashi , Hiroshi Yamazaki , Yoshihiro Yamagishi
- 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: Studebaker & Brackett PC
- Priority: JP2012-161093 20120720
- Main IPC: G03G15/08
- IPC: G03G15/08 ; G03G15/09

Abstract:
A developer conveyance device includes a housing and a conveyance member. The conveyance member is supported to the housing and rotates to convey developer. The conveyance member includes a shaft portion, a helical member, and a plurality of reinforcement members. The plurality of reinforcement members are disposed in a circumferential direction of rotation of the conveyance member. When viewing a cross section in a direction intersecting with the rotational axis, an outer circumferential surface of the helical member includes a facing region and a non-facing region, which are defined for one reinforcement member of the plurality of reinforcement members, the facing region being a region where the one reinforcement member of the plurality of reinforcement members is projected on an opposite side of an outer circumferential surface of the helical member through the rotational axis, and the non-facing region being a region of the outer circumferential surface of the helical member which is different from the facing region. The other reinforcement member of the plurality of reinforcement members is disposed in the non-facing region.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140023403A1 DEVELOPER CONVEYANCE DEVICE, DEVELOPMENT DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2014-01-23
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