Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Developing device and image forming apparatus including same
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Application No.: US15228791Application Date: 2016-08-04
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Publication No.: US09665037B2Publication Date: 2017-05-30
- Inventor: Shinji Otani , Yukari Ota , Yasuhiro Tauchi , Takashi Somete , Yoshimi Shimizu
- 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: Stein IP, LLC
- Priority: JP2015-180494 20150914
- Main IPC: G03G15/08
- IPC: G03G15/08

Abstract:
A developing device includes a developing roller, a toner supplying roller, a regulation blade, a casing, a toner receiver support member, a toner receiver member, and a vibration generator. The toner receiver member is disposed along a longitudinal direction of the toner receiver support member facing the developing roller, and has a toner receiving surface inclined downward from the image-carrier side toward the toner-supplying-roller side. The toner receiving surface is disposed to be inclined so as to rise from the toner-supplying-roller side toward the image-carrier side. The toner receiving surface has a plurality of grooves formed therein to be inclined to approach a center part of the toner receiving surface from each end side of the toner receiving surface in its longitudinal direction, from an edge of the toner receiving surface on the image-carrier side toward an edge of the toner receiving surface on the toner-supplying-roller side.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170075252A1 DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME Public/Granted day:2017-03-16
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