Image forming apparatus with improved capabilities for toner supply
    19.
    发明授权
    Image forming apparatus with improved capabilities for toner supply 有权
    具有改善墨粉供应能力的成像设备

    公开(公告)号:US06775503B2

    公开(公告)日:2004-08-10

    申请号:US10133484

    申请日:2002-04-29

    IPC分类号: G03G1508

    摘要: A toner supply unit powder pump of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus is driven by an exclusive motor independently of a main motor driving major parts of the image forming apparatus. Thereby, the toner supply unit can implement responsive supply of toner unaffected by operation mode changes with a simpler construction. A toner supply system can use plural powder pumps for plural color developing stations. By considering distance and elevation of toner transport paths to respective stations, appropriate pump revolutions can be determined for respective stations, to achieve desirable toner transport amounts to respective stations in relatively short time with a simpler construction supply unit. A method precisely controls toner transport amounts by intermittently driving the powder pump with an arbitrary unit driving time. When the arbitrary unit driving time is changed to another unit driving time, the pump is driven transiently with the still another unit driving time.

    摘要翻译: 电子照相图像形成装置的调色剂供应单元粉末泵由专用电机驱动,独立于驱动图像形成装置的主要部分的主电机。 因此,调色剂供应单元可以以更简单的结构实现不受操作模式改变影响的响应的调色剂供应。 调色剂供应系统可以使用多个粉末泵用于多个彩色显影站。 通过考虑到相应站的调色剂输送路径的距离和高度,可以针对各个站确定适当的泵转数,以通过更简单的施工供应单元在相对短的时间内实现对各个站的期望的调色剂输送量。 一种方法通过以任意的单位驱动时间间歇地驱动粉末泵来精确地控制调色剂输送量。 当任意单元驱动时间改变为另一个单元驱动时间时,泵随着另一个单元驱动时间瞬时地被驱动。

    Developer replenishing device and developer container for use therewith
    20.
    发明授权
    Developer replenishing device and developer container for use therewith 失效
    显影剂补充装置和显影剂容器用于此

    公开(公告)号:US5627631A

    公开(公告)日:1997-05-06

    申请号:US587966

    申请日:1996-01-17

    IPC分类号: G03G15/08

    摘要: A developer replenishing device for replenishing a developing device with a developer, and a developer container for use therewith. The developer container, or toner bottle, has a mouth portion at one end thereof which is smaller in diameter than a hollow cylindrical main body. At the end of the bottle provided with the mouth, a shoulder has the inner periphery thereof partly raised to the edge of the mouth portion to form a raised portion for scooping up a toner. In addition, a part of the inner periphery of the circumferential wall of the bottle which is contiguous with the raised portion is also raised toward the axis of the bottle about which the bottle is rotatable, thereby forming another raised portion. When the bottle is mounted to a bottle holder, which is included in the replenishing device, substantially horizontally with the mouth portion oriented sideways, the bottle is rotated to raise the toner from the bottom of the main body to the mouth portion. As a result, the toner is discharged to the outside via the mouth portion smoothly.

    摘要翻译: 用于用显影剂补充显影装置的显影剂补充装置和与其一起使用的显影剂容器。 显影剂容器或调色剂瓶在其一端具有直径小于中空圆柱形主体的口部。 在设置有口部的瓶子的端部,肩部的内周部分地部分地升高到嘴部的边缘,以形成用于舀取调色剂的凸起部分。 此外,与凸起部分邻接的瓶的圆周壁的内周的一部分也朝向瓶可旋转的瓶的轴线升高,从而形成另一个凸起部分。 当瓶子被安装到包括在补充装置中的瓶保持器时,基本上水平地使口部侧向取向,瓶子被旋转以将调色剂从主体的底部升高到嘴部。 结果,调色剂通过口部平滑地排出到外部。