Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Development device and image forming apparatus comprising same
- Patent Title (中): 显影装置和包含该显影装置的图像形成装置
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Application No.: US12041394Application Date: 2008-03-03
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Publication No.: US07805098B2Publication Date: 2010-09-28
- Inventor: Takahiko Kimura , Shigeki Hayashi , Shuichi Akedo , Teruyoshi Sudoh , Tomoya Usui
- Applicant: Takahiko Kimura , Shigeki Hayashi , Shuichi Akedo , Teruyoshi Sudoh , Tomoya Usui
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC
- Priority: JP2007-059169 20070308
- Main IPC: G03G15/08
- IPC: G03G15/08 ; G03G15/04

Abstract:
The development device of the present invention has a rotating shutter supported rotatably between a supply opening formed on a toner supply device and a receiving opening formed on a developing tank. The rotating shutter has an open section extending in the axial direction of the roller-shaped main section as well as opened in the direction perpendicular to the axial direction thereof, opening and shutting the supply opening in conjunction with attachment and detachment operation of the developing tank. The rotating shutter shuts the supply opening by covering the supply opening with the outer surface of the roller-shaped main section, and opens the supply opening by communicating the supply opening and the receiving opening through the open section. Thus, it is possible to prevent the leakage of toner even after repetitively performing the attachment and detachment operation of the developing tank.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080219699A1 DEVELOPMENT DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS COMPRISING SAME Public/Granted day:2008-09-11
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