Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Stirring/conveying member, and developing device and image forming apparatus therewith
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Application No.: US15713085Application Date: 2017-09-22
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Publication No.: US10345738B2Publication Date: 2019-07-09
- Inventor: Akifumi Yamaguchi
- 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: JP2016-219067 20161109
- Main IPC: G03G15/08
- IPC: G03G15/08

Abstract:
A stirring/conveying member has a rotary shaft rotatably supported in a powder container, a first helical blade formed on the circumferential surface of the rotary shaft and conveying powder in the axial direction by the rotation of the rotary shaft, and a second helical blade formed on the circumferential surface of the rotary shaft to overlap the forming region of the first helical blade, spiraling in the opposite phase to the first helical blade, and having a smaller radial height than the first helical blade. The first helical blade crosses the second helical blade at least at one place in one turn about the rotary shaft. At least one of the radial heights of the first and second helical blades equals zero at the intersection of the first and second helical blades.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180129149A1 Stirring/conveying member, and developing device and image forming apparatus therewith Public/Granted day:2018-05-10
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