Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Developer cartridge, developing device and image forming apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 显影剂盒,显影装置和图像形成装置
-
Application No.: US12210311Application Date: 2008-09-15
-
Publication No.: US07881633B2Publication Date: 2011-02-01
- Inventor: Susumu Sakuma
- Applicant: Susumu Sakuma
- Applicant Address: JP Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken
- Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken
- Agency: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.
- Priority: JP2007-258318 20071002
- Main IPC: G03G15/08
- IPC: G03G15/08

Abstract:
A developer cartridge includes an outside frame, an inside frame, a first sealing member and a second sealing member. The outside frame includes an outside supply opening and an outside return opening. The inside frame includes a developer chamber for accommodating a developer, an inside supply opening and an inside return opening. The first sealing member is provided around one of the inside return opening and the outside return opening between the inside frame and the outside frame and is contactable with the inside frame and the outside frame with a first contact pressure. The second sealing member is provided around one of the inside supply opening and the outside supply opening between the inside frame and the outside frame and is contactable with the inside frame and the outside frame with a second contact pressure that is greater than the first contact pressure.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090087216A1 DEVELOPER CARTRIDGE, DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2009-04-02
Information query