Developing apparatus having air discharge

    公开(公告)号:US12066771B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-20

    申请号:US17376300

    申请日:2021-07-15

    发明人: Masashi Wakisaka

    IPC分类号: G03G15/08 G03G15/09 G03G21/20

    摘要: A developing apparatus includes a developing container to accommodate a developer and having first and second chambers divided by a partition wall for supplying the developer to a rotatable developing member and first and second communicating portions to allow the developer to move between first and second chambers by conveyance screws. A third communicating portion is disposed between the first and second communicating portions and above the conveyance screws to allow air inside the developing container to move between the first chamber and the second chamber. The developing container further includes a third chamber disposed above the second chamber in the vertical direction and accommodates initial developer in an unused state of the developing apparatus, and an opening portion for discharging the air inside the developing container to outside of the developing container is provided in the third chamber, with the opening being disposed above the third chamber.

    Developing device with magnetic member having plurality of magnetic poles

    公开(公告)号:US12001156B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-06-04

    申请号:US18023977

    申请日:2020-12-15

    IPC分类号: G03G15/09 G03G15/08

    CPC分类号: G03G15/0928 G03G15/0818

    摘要: In some examples, a developing device includes a developing container including an opening and to store a developer, a developing sleeve installed in the developing container and partially exposed to an outside of the developing container through the opening, a regulation member upstream of the opening in a rotation direction of the developing sleeve and to regulate an amount of the developer adhered to the developing sleeve and supplied to the opening, and a magnetic member inside the developing sleeve. The magnetic member includes a main pole facing the opening, a regulation pole facing the regulation member, and a catch pole upstream of the regulation pole in the rotation direction of the developing sleeve. The magnetic member is to cause adhesion of the developer in the developing container to the developing sleeve. At least one of lengths of the catch pole or the regulation pole and diameters of both end portions of the catch pole or the regulation pole are less than a length and a diameter, respectively, of the main pole.

    Developing device
    4.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11982954B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-14

    申请号:US17826401

    申请日:2022-05-27

    IPC分类号: G03G15/09

    CPC分类号: G03G15/0921

    摘要: With respect to a rotational direction of a rotatable developing member of a developing device, an opposing position where a regulating portion of the developing device is opposed to an outer peripheral surface of the rotatable developing member is between a first maximum position and a position where a magnetic flux density of a regulating pole in a tangential direction relative to the outer peripheral surface of the rotatable developing member is zero. With respect to the rotational direction of the rotatable developing member, the position where the magnetic flux density of the regulating pole in the tangential direction relative to the outer peripheral surface of the rotatable developing member is zero is within a range of ±2° of a midpoint between the first maximum position and a second maximum position or is downstream of the range.

    DEVELOPMENT DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND DEVELOPMENT METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20240142897A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-02

    申请号:US18497980

    申请日:2023-10-30

    发明人: Takeshi ARAKAWA

    IPC分类号: G03G15/09 G03G9/08 G03G9/107

    摘要: A development device includes an accommodation section that accommodates a developer and a developer bearing member that carries the developer in the accommodation section. The developer bearing member includes a magnetic member and a sleeve provided around the magnetic member rotatably around the magnetic member. The sleeve includes a metal substrate with a surface having projections and recesses and a plating layer covering the surface of the metal substrate. The plating layer contains chromium and cobalt. The developer contains a toner and the toner includes toner particles. The toner particles each include a toner mother particle and external additive particles attached to the surface of the toner mother particle. The toner mother particles contain a binder resin and a magnetic powder. The external additive particles include alumina particles with surfaces that are hydrophobized.

    DEVELOPING DEVICE
    6.
    发明公开
    DEVELOPING DEVICE 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240069470A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-29

    申请号:US18388309

    申请日:2023-11-09

    发明人: Chihiro Tanaka

    摘要: A developing device includes a developing container, a developing roller, a supplying roller, a first magnet including a first magnetic pole, a second magnet including second to fifth magnetic poles, and a regulating member. A maximum magnetic flux density of the second magnetic pole is larger in absolute value than a maximum magnetic flux density of the third magnetic pole in a normal direction to the supplying roller, and a maximum magnetic flux density of the third magnetic pole is larger in absolute value than a maximum magnetic flux density of the fourth magnetic pole in the normal direction. With respect to a rotational direction of the supplying roller, an angle between maximum magnetic flux density positions of the second and third magnetic poles is smaller than an angle between maximum magnetic flux density positions of the third and fourth magnetic poles.

    IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    8.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230408973A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-12-21

    申请号:US18331671

    申请日:2023-06-08

    IPC分类号: G03G21/20 G03G15/09 G03G21/10

    摘要: An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a cleaning unit, a development device, and a control unit. The development device includes a toner collection mechanism having a developer carrier and a filter. The control unit is capable of executing a scattered toner recovery mode at non-image forming time, in which the filter is vibrated, a potential difference is generated in the direction for the toner to move from the developer carrier to the image carrier, the developer carrier is rotated in a reverse direction to that at image forming time, and the image carrier is rotated in the same direction as that at the image forming time, so that scattered toner, which has dropped from the filter and adhered to the developer carrier, is recovered by the cleaning unit via the image carrier.