IMAGE FORMING UNIT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

    公开(公告)号:US20200257221A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-08-13

    申请号:US16517855

    申请日:2019-07-22

    IPC分类号: G03G15/08

    摘要: An image forming unit includes an image carrier, a developer carrier, a development housing, and a guide member. The image carrier forms an electrostatic latent image. The developer carrier is in contact with the image carrier while rotating about a rotation axis and facing the image carrier to develop the electrostatic latent image. The development housing accommodates a developer and rotatably supports the developer carrier at one end with an opening portion that is open to the image carrier. The development housing includes an agitation path in which the developer is agitated and a feed path through which the developer is fed to the developer carrier. The guide member is disposed below the opening portion and includes an inner surface opposing the development housing to form a flow path that guides a current of air produced with rotation of the developer carrier in a direction away from the developer carrier, and to guide a recording medium to the image carrier with an outer surface opposite to the inner surface. Dust contained in the current of air is deposited on the inner surface of the guide member.

    DEVELOPER COLLECTION CONTAINER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    3.
    发明申请
    DEVELOPER COLLECTION CONTAINER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS 有权
    开发者收集容器和图像形成装置

    公开(公告)号:US20160209776A1

    公开(公告)日:2016-07-21

    申请号:US14831226

    申请日:2015-08-20

    IPC分类号: G03G15/08

    CPC分类号: G03G15/0881 G03G21/12

    摘要: A developer collection container includes a connecting part removably connected to a discharge structure by moving relative to the discharge structure, the connecting part having a receiving opening to receive developer discharged from a discharge opening of the discharge structure, a storage part for storing the discharged developer, an opening and closing member provided in an area of the connecting part where the receiving opening is provided, the opening and closing member moving parallel to the area in conjunction with relative movement of the connecting part for displacement between close and open positions to close and open the receiving opening and having a covering part, and a sealing member provided around the receiving opening in the area, the sealing member sealing a gap formed between the covering part and the area and sealing at least a gap formed between the surrounding part of the discharge opening and the area.

    摘要翻译: 显影剂收集容器包括通过相对于排出结构移动可拆卸地连接到排出结构的连接部分,所述连接部分具有接收开口以接收从排放结构的排出口排出的显影剂,用于存储排出的显影剂的存储部分 ,设置在设置有接收开口的连接部的区域中的开闭部件,所述开闭部件与所述连接部的相对移动一起平行于所述区域移动,以在关闭位置和打开位置之间移动以关闭和 打开接收开口并具有覆盖部分,以及设置在该区域中的接收开口周围的密封构件,密封构件密封形成在覆盖部分和区域之间的间隙,并且密封形成在覆盖部分的周围部分之间的间隙 排放口和区域。

    DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

    公开(公告)号:US20190025730A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-01-24

    申请号:US15943716

    申请日:2018-04-03

    IPC分类号: G03G15/08

    摘要: A developing device includes a developing member that develops an electrostatic latent image on an image carrying member with developer; a housing that houses and supports the developing member and has an open part facing the image carrying member; a storage portion provided inside the housing and storing the developer; and a leakage suppressing member provided at an edge of the open part that is on a downstream side in a direction of rotation of the developing member, the leakage suppressing member suppressing leakage of the developer from the housing toward the image carrying member. The housing has an opening on the downstream side in the direction of rotation with respect to the leakage suppressing member and on an upstream side in the direction of rotation with respect to the storage portion, the opening being open from a side of the developing member toward the outside of the housing.

    IMAGE FORMING UNIT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

    公开(公告)号:US20200257219A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-08-13

    申请号:US16539599

    申请日:2019-08-13

    IPC分类号: G03G15/08

    摘要: Provided is an image forming unit contained in a flexible bag and held to allow a cushion member to absorb shock. The image forming unit includes: an image carrier on which an electrostatic latent image is formed; a developing device including a developing unit that is configured to develop the electrostatic latent image by turning around a turning center and coming into contact with the image carrier; and a developer accommodating portion that accommodates a developer for use in the developing device. The image forming unit also includes a restricting portion that is provided on an outermost portion of the developing device to come into contact with the cushion material so that rotation of the developing device is restricted.

    IMAGE FORMING UNIT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

    公开(公告)号:US20200096939A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-03-26

    申请号:US16286624

    申请日:2019-02-27

    IPC分类号: G03G21/20 G03G15/08

    摘要: An image forming unit includes a developing device, a guiding member, and a sealing member. The developing device develops an electrostatic latent image formed on an image carrier that rotates. The developing device has a first ventilation hole that serves as a flow path for an airflow that is generated by rotation of the image carrier. The guiding member guides a recording material to the image carrier. The guiding member has a second ventilation hole that forms the flow path for the airflow in cooperation with the first ventilation hole. The sealing member is disposed between the first ventilation hole and the second ventilation hole. The sealing member has a first end in contact with the developing device and a second end in contact with the guiding member.

    DEVELOPING DEVICE WITH SEALING UNIT, PROCESS CARTRIDGE USING DEVELOPING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

    公开(公告)号:US20200096904A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-03-26

    申请号:US16294950

    申请日:2019-03-07

    IPC分类号: G03G15/08 G03G21/18

    摘要: A developing device includes a developer storing unit that stores a developer before use of the developing device, a developer containing unit that contains, when the developing device is used, the developer stored in the developer storing unit such that the developer is capable of being stirred by the developer containing unit, a developer holding unit that is provided in a portion of the developer containing unit and that holds the developer contained in the developer containing unit and moves the developer in a rotation direction, a sealing unit including a sealing tape portion that seals a slit-shaped opening formed in the developer storing unit along a longitudinal direction of the developer storing unit while the sealing tape portion is capable of being pulled out and that seals the slit-shaped opening of the developer storing unit by being removably fixed onto an edge of the opening and an extended tape portion that is folded at an end of the sealing tape portion in a longitudinal direction of the sealing tape portion and that extends along the sealing tape portion in such a manner as to project outward beyond the sealing tape portion, a scraping unit that is disposed at an end portion of the developer storing unit in the longitudinal direction and that causes the extended tape portion of the sealing unit to move while making frictional contact with the scraping unit so as to scrape off developer powder deposited on the extended tape portion and on the sealing tape portion, which follows movement of the extended tape portion, and a holding unit that is disposed outside the scraping unit in the longitudinal direction of the developer storing unit with a space formed between the holding unit and the scraping unit and that holds the extended tape portion and the sealing tape portion such that the extended tape portion and the sealing tape portion are capable of moving.

    IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    9.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180088498A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-03-29

    申请号:US15585883

    申请日:2017-05-03

    IPC分类号: G03G15/00

    摘要: An image forming apparatus includes: a transferring unit that transfers an image carried on an image carrier to a medium; a fixing unit that is disposed in an upper portion of a main body of the image forming apparatus, that includes a heat source, and that fixes the image transferred to the medium by heat; a discharge port that is disposed below the fixing unit, the medium having the fixed image being discharged to the discharge port; and a discharge unit that is disposed at a position where the discharge unit overlaps the fixing unit when viewed from above and below the fixing unit, that includes an open portion formed between the discharge unit and the discharge port, and that accommodates the medium having passed through the discharge port.

    IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    10.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190064725A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-02-28

    申请号:US15913932

    申请日:2018-03-07

    摘要: An image forming apparatus includes: a transport member that transports a medium; a storage that is disposed below the transport member in a gravitational direction, and that stores the medium which is delivered by the transport member and falls into the storage; a supporter that is provided in the storage, and that has an upper end disposed below the transport member in a gravitational direction, and that allows the medium to be stored with a front end of the medium in a discharge direction matching a lower end of the medium in a gravitational direction; and a guidance member that is disposed in the supporter with the medium interposed between the guidance member and the supporter, and that guides the medium which falls to the supporter.