Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Developing device
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Application No.: US16823679Application Date: 2020-03-19
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Publication No.: US11028903B2Publication Date: 2021-06-08
- Inventor: Takashi Shimizu , Yasuo Fukamachi , Keita Shimizu , Kazutoshi Nakamura
- Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Nagoya
- Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Nagoya
- Agency: Merchant & Gould P.C.
- Priority: JPJP2019-059882 20190327,JPJP2019-059883 20190327
- Main IPC: F16H3/18
- IPC: F16H3/18 ; G03G15/08

Abstract:
A developing device may include an auger or an agitator that is capable of supplying toner in a toner accommodation chamber to a developing chamber and is rotatable about an auger axis extending in an axial direction, a transporting gear that is rotatable together with the auger or the agitator, and a moving gear that is in mesh with a coupling gear and is rotatable both counterclockwise and clockwise. The moving gear is movable while being in mesh with the coupling gear between a first position where the moving gear is in mesh with the transporting gear and a second position where the moving gear is out of mesh with the transporting gear. The moving gear moves to the first position when the coupling gear rotates counterclockwise and to the second position when the coupling gear rotates clockwise.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200332863A1 DEVELOPING DEVICE Public/Granted day:2020-10-22
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